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Community-based Interventions for Criminal Offenders with Severe Mental Illness
William H. . Ed(S): Fisher
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Description for Community-based Interventions for Criminal Offenders with Severe Mental Illness
Hardback. Criminal offenders with serious mental health problems pose a difficult problem for courts and the law enforcement industry. The contributors to this collection explore the key issues of the problem and discuss radical solutions like new community-based approaches for serving offenders. Editor(s): Fisher, William H. Series: Research in Community & Mental Health S. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFH; JFS; JKVQ1; MBPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 504.
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, such as jail diversion programmes and mental health courts, seek to move offenders with mental illness charged with "low-level" crimes from the criminal justice system to the mental health system. Others target offenders with mental illness who are being released from correctional settings, and attempt to facilitate their re-entry into the community and ... Read more
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, such as jail diversion programmes and mental health courts, seek to move offenders with mental illness charged with "low-level" crimes from the criminal justice system to the mental health system. Others target offenders with mental illness who are being released from correctional settings, and attempt to facilitate their re-entry into the community and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Series
Research in Community & Mental Health S.
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780762309726
SKU
V9780762309726
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