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.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781849501835; 1849501831; 0762309725; 9780762309726
• ISSN: 0192-0812 ;
• DOI: 10.1016/S0192-0812(2002)12
• 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,...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / William H. Fisher
• Where is the 'illness' in the criminalization of mental illness? / Jeffrey Draine
• Community mental health services and criminal justice involvement among persons with mental illness / William H. Fisher, Nancy Wolff and Kristen Roy-Bujnowski
• Case management and the forensic client / Phyllis Solomon
• The impact of 'new generation' anti-psychotic medication on criminal justice outcomes / John A. Pandiani, Steven M. Banks and Sheila M. Pomeroy
• Jail diversion for people with mental illness: what do we really know? / Rani A. Desai
• The nature of the alliance: an anthropological look at the practice of forensic psychiatry / Dena Plemmons
• Courting the court: courts as agents for treatment and justice / Nancy Wolff
• Prison, hospital or community: community re-entry and mentally ill offenders / Stephanie Hartwell.