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Mental Health and Criminal Justice: A Review of the Relationship Between Mental Disorders and Offending Behaviors and On the Management of Mentally Abnormal Offenders in the Health and Criminal Justice Services
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Mental Health and Criminal Justice: A Review of the Relationship Between Mental Disorders and Offending Behaviors and On the Management of Mentally Abnormal Offenders in the Health and Criminal Justice Services
Publication year:
2001
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: Research regarding correlations between mental disorders and offending behaviors and the management of the mentally disturbed in order to reduce offending and reoffending is reviewed. This literature survey provides a look at: major mental disorders and offending behaviors; substance abuse, mental disorders, and offending; the methodological limitations of existing studies; effective sizes and practical significance; from associations to risks, and from risks to predictions; the influence of changing patterns of mental health care and criminal justice policies; and the management of mentally disordered and intellectually disabled offenders in the criminal justice system.