Community-based interventions for criminal offenders with severe mental illness

• Other Authors: Fisher, William H.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : JAI, 2003.
• Series: Research in community and mental health ; v. 12.
• Subjects: Community mental health services > United States.; Mentally ill offenders > United States.; Mentally ill offenders > Services for > United States.; Rehabilitation of offenders.; Illness & addiction > Social aspects.; Psychology > Mental Illness.; Psychology > Social Psychology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781849501835 (electronic bk.) : 1849501831 (electronic bk.) : 0762309725 (hbk.); 9780762309726 (hbk.)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 220 p.) : ill.

People with mental illness in the criminal justice system are a vexing problem in many countries. Efforts to cope with this problem have taken a number of forms. Some focus on the expansion of existing community mental health treatment and support systems. Other, more recently developed approaches,...