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Patricia Griffin - The Sequential Intercept Model and Criminal Justice: Promoting Community Alternatives for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness - 9780199826759 - V9780199826759
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The Sequential Intercept Model and Criminal Justice: Promoting Community Alternatives for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness

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Description for The Sequential Intercept Model and Criminal Justice: Promoting Community Alternatives for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness Hardcover. The Sequential Intercept Model and Criminal Justice offers an overview of the recent changes in correctional policy and practice that reflect an increased focus on community-based alternatives for offenders. Editor(s): Griffin, Patricia; Heilbrun, Kirk; Mulvey, Edward; DeMatteo, David; Schubert, Carol. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JMH; JMK; LNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 166 x 33. Weight in Grams: 548.
The number of individuals with severe mental illness in the criminal justice system is shockingly high. However, there is a wealth of research that shows that the traditional incarceration model is not effective with this population, and that many of these individuals can be helped in the community at less cost without increased risk to public safety by addressing their risk-relevant needs and improvinge their opportunities for recovery. As a result, during the last decade there has been an increasing interest in community-based alternatives to incarceration for individuals with severe mental illness. The Sequential Intercept Model and Criminal ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199826759
SKU
V9780199826759
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About Patricia Griffin
Patricia Griffin, PhD, is an independent consultant who is also associated with the Pennsylvania Mental Health and Justice Center of Excellence, SAMHSA's GAINS Center for Behavioral Health and Justice Transformation, and Policy Research Associates. Her training is in community psychology. Her scholarly and practice interests include diversion, specialized training of first responders, and provision of services to justice-involved individuals with ... Read more

Reviews for The Sequential Intercept Model and Criminal Justice: Promoting Community Alternatives for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness
In The Sequential Intercept Model and Criminal Justice, Patricia Griffin and her co-editors have somehow managed to get a Who's Who of contributors to flesh out the nuanced implications of this generation's most important conceptual contribution to community-based services for justice-involved people with mental illness. The book seamlessly weaves together up-to-the-minute academic research and down-to-earth clinical practice. It provides nothing ... Read more

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