Community-Based Interventions for Criminal Offenders with Severe Mental Illness

by W. Fisher

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762309725
• ISBN13: 9780762309726
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Jai Press Inc.
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 9.1"