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From arrest to release, the organizational response to mentally ill
offenders is continually evolving according to existing policies
and resources. How organizations respond, how they should respond,
and their ability to evolve is important. The chapters in this
volume offer cases with wide ranging policy implications regarding
structural and functional changes institutions and organizations
might consider given the confines of context and resources to
improve the conditions of mentally ill offenders. Policies
regarding mentally ill offenders are played out differently by
state and county, and the capacity of communities to support
individuals with mental illness and criminal histories varies. The
quantitative and qualitative research on organizational responses
to offenders with mental illness highlighted herein include program
evaluation; data collection; best practices in resource
utilization; dispositions and the courts; screening; and a broader
articulation of outcomes given the special needs of the population.
From the de-institutionalization of psychiatric hospitals to the
privatization of prisons, the dramatic public policy changes of the
last three decades have been, to a large extent, changes in
organization. The chapters in this volume examine these
organizational changes. We learn how organizations shift
strategies, create alliances, cross boundaries and react to
incentives as they respond to changing environmental pressures. We
learn about the complex relationships between organizations and
their clients and how these relations can be altered in response to
environmental change. Chapters in the first section focus primarily
on inter-organizational relations among health care and community
development organizations. Chapters in the second section focus
primarily on relations between organizations and their clients,
both in medical organizations and in the criminal justice system.
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