Forensic Mental Health: Framing Integrated Solutions

by Michele Bratina

Forensic Mental Health: Framing Integrated Solutions describes a criminal justice-mental health nexus that touches every population--juvenile and adult male and female offenders, probationers and parolees, the aging adult prison population, and victims of crime. In the United States today, the criminal justice system functions as a mental health provider, but at great cost to society. The author summarizes the historical roots of this crisis and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138935387
• ISBN13: 9781138935389
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 290 Pages