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Community-based interventions for criminal offenders with severe mental illness /

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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fisher, William H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston : JAI, 2003.
Colección:Research in community and mental health ; v. 12.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.