Student Perceptions of Mentally Ill Offenders

<p>Since 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 perception of mentally ill individuals and offenders, previous research focuses largely on students of psychology, social work, and medicine. Little research has been conducted regarding the perceptions of students of criminal justice toward mental illness, despite the increasing involvement of the criminal justice system in treating and handling mentally ill individuals in the past thirty years. This exploratory research serves as a replication to a study which was conducted by Thompson, Paulson, Valgardson, Nored, and Johnson (2014).</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Criminal Justice

Year dc:date.available

2016

Author dc:creator

• Rayborn, Kimberly Nicole

Contributors dc:contributor

• Alan Thompson
• Wesley Johnson
• JooHee lee

• mental illness
• criminalization of mental illness
• criminal justice
• perceptions of mental illness
• mentally ill offenders
• Criminology and Criminal Justice

Repository record dc:identifier

https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/180

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:aquila.usm.edu:masters_theses-1206