Community Corrections in America: New Directions and Sounder Investments for Persons with Mental Illness and Codisorders
Publication year:
1996
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: Fifteen contributors provide ten chapters in this document, titled as follows: 1. The Challenge of Responding to Persons with Mental Illness on Community Corrections Supervision; 2. Persons with Mental Illness on Probation and Parole: The Importance of Information; 3. Offenders with Mental Illness on Probation Supervision; 4. Women in Probation and Parole; 5. Working with Seriously Mentally Ill Substance Abusers; 6. People of Color; 7. Juveniles: The First Frontier; 8. Reengineering the Delivery of Services to Probationers and Parolees with Mental Illness; 9. From Territoriality to Collaboration: A Multi-System Response to Offenders with Mental Illness; and 10. Effective Strategies for Providing Mental Health Services to Probationers with Mental Illness.