The criminalization of mental illness
Subtitle: crisis & opportunity for the justice system
By: Risdon N. Slate and W. Wesley Johnson.
Contributors: Johnson, W. Wesley.
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9781594602689
Subjects: Insanity (Law) -- United States.; Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- United States.; Mentally ill offenders -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: value: The history of maintaining order with persons with mental illnesses; value: The criminalization of persons with mental illnesses; value: The law enforcement response to persons with mental illnesses in crises; value: Mental health courts; value: Discharge planning : diversion & re-entry; value: Outpatient commitment; value: Jail processing of persons with mental illnesses; value: Dealing with mental illness in the prison population; value: Psychological profiles of criminal justice practitioners : how experiences and attitudes shape the treatment of those with mental illnesses; value: The intersection of mental illness and criminal law.