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Washington's Dangerous Mentally Ill Offender Law: Was Community Safety Increased?
Publication year:
2005
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The effectiveness of legislation regarding the transitional treatment of dangerous mentally ill offenders (DMIO) being released into the community is examined. Sections of this report are: executive summary; legislative mandate; research methods; findings regarding recidivism, mental health and social services, validity of the risk tool LSI-R, case management, program costs, and expanding DMIO services to other classifications of offenders; DMIO identification and selection; Community Transition Study (CTS) comparison group; case management study; and tables of analysis results. For the 18-month period following release, reconviction was 33.5% for DMIO participants (compared to the CTS rate of 52.6%), with an overall return of 74 cents per dollar spent on the DMIO program.