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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Mentally ill offenders"”.
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Student Perceptions of Mentally Ill Offenders
… deinstitutionalization, the responsibility for mentally ill members of society has shifted to the criminal justice system in a process of trans-institutionalization or “criminalization of mental illness” (Slate & Johnson, 2008). Though various groups have been studied to ascertain their …
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Interprofessional Collaboration Between Criminal Justice And Mental Health Practitioners Regarding Mentally Ill Offenders: Perception of Collaboration
… resulted in a well documented, ever-increasing mentally ill population in the nation's prisons and jails. Historically, the criminal justice system has maintained a laissez-faire attitude toward the mentally ill, and only became involved with the mentally ill when a crime had been committed. As …
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Cheerleaders and Performers: Mental Health Courts in a Midwestern State
… technique for dealing with persons with mental illness in the criminal justice system: mental health court (MHC). This study of nine MHC programs utilized surveys, interviews, and ethnographic observations to examine the work activities and understandings of the criminal justice and mental …
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Mental health courts: The criminal justice response to the rise in mentally ill prisoners
… of the correctional population that is mentally ill is increasing significantly faster than the correctional population itself. From 1998 to 2005, while the overall correctional population increased 20.8 percent, the mentally ill correctional population increased 27.3 percent. This …
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Extending Our Promise: Providing Help to Mentally Ill Accused As Soon As Practicable
… state of the criminal law’s interaction with mentally ill persons, with a specific interest in this interaction during pre-trial phases such as arrest and bail. It argues that the current provisions in the Criminal Code of Canada that allow for limited instances of pre-trial mental health …
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Medication Adherence, Rates of Rehospitalization, and Depot Medications In Forensic Patients With A Diagnosis of Schizophrenia
… treatment in the population of mentally ill offenders has remained limited. It has been suggested that conventional depot neuroleptics continue to be underused for this population and that both conventional and atypical depot agents may be the best first line medications. …
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Indicators of delay between recommendation for community outpatient treatment and release into a conditional release program
The mentally ill who have been found not guilty of a crime by reason of insanity (NGRI), appear to be at risk in several areas when confronted with the judicial system. The purpose of this study is to determine whether the factors which predict recidivism of NGRI patients in Community Out-patient …