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Mental Illness and Substance Abuse in the Criminal Justice System
Publication year:
2000
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The need for collaboration between behavioral health and criminal justice systems is explained, along with viable ways to affect these interrelationships. Following an introduction, this report looks at: the criminal justice system; special circumstances -- severe mental illness and the courts; special circumstances -- mental illness and violence; prevalence of severe mental illness in the criminal justice system; prevalence of substance abuse; prevalence of co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse; current treatment in the criminal justice system; the costs of mental illness and substance abuse to the criminal justice system; current practices and promising innovations; next steps; and final considerations.