Main description:

Discover how to best provide effective mental health treatments for criminal offenders

Prisons and jails are increasingly being filled with inmates who suffer from mental illness and need treatment. Mental Health Issues in the Criminal Justice System examines a wide range of the latest research and learned perspectives focusing on the intersection of mental health services and the criminal justice system. Top experts and academics discuss mental health treatment, its availability, it effectiveness, and just how cost effective it truly is to treat those in prisons and jails. This valuable text provides a broad interdisciplinary view of the topic and presents important qualitative and quantitative research of specific topics, such as the effectiveness of prisoner representatives, the causal link between incarceration and mental illness, and the expanding rates of correctional offenders with mental illness.

Mental Health Issues in the Criminal Justice System discusses a wide range of pertinent topics focusing on the viability and functioning of mental health treatment models in prisons and jails. Recommendations on desired correctional mental health programs are presented, along with strategies to better provide therapeutic services. Respected experts provide practical suggestions on research that needs to be addressed in the future. The book is extensively referenced and includes several tables and figures to clearly present data.

Other topics in Mental Health Issues in the Criminal Justice System include:

the prevalence of mental illness in jails and prisons-and the duty society has to provide appropriate mental health treatment
three components critical to the success of jail diversion programs
ethics of doing research on prisoners
an extended care community corrections model
the experience of mitigation experts in first degree murder cases in the penalty phase of the trial
the criminalization of the mentally ill because of fragmentation of mental health services
correctional offenders with mental illness (OMIs)-and their differences from the general offender population
the role of the helping alliance in juvenile probation settings
and much more!

Mental Health Issues in the Criminal Justice System is a timely, insightful text for anyone in the criminal justice or mental health fields, educators, graduate students, and upper-level undergraduate students.

Contents:

Kerle, Foreword. Soderstrom, Mental Illness in Offender Populations: Prevalence, Duty and Implications. Mire, Forsyth, Hanser, Jail Diversion: Addressing the Needs of Offenders with Mental Illness and Co-Occurring Disorders. Mobley, Henry, Plemmons, Protecting Prisoners from Harmful Research: Is "Being Heard" Enough? Weaver, Justice is in the Eye of the Beholder. Sabbatine, An "Extended Care" Community Corrections Models for Seriously Mentally Ill Offenders. C. J. Forsyth, O. F. Forsyth, A Story Telling of Tragedy: Mental Illness, Molestation, Suicide, and the Penalty of Death Gaols or de facto Mental Institutions? Henderson, Why Individuals with a Mental Illness Are Over-Represented in the Criminal Justice System in New South Wales, Australia. O'Keefe, Schnell, Offenders with Mental Illness in the Correctional System. Matthews,Hubbard, The Helping Alliance in Juvenile Probation: The Missing Element in the "What Works" Literature. Kenny, Lennings, Nelson, The Mental Health of Young Offenders Serving Orders in the Community: Implications for Rehabilitation. O'Keefe, Administrative Segregation for Mentally Ill Innmates. Vogel, Noether, Steadman, Preparing Communities for Re-Entry of Offenders with Mental Illness: The ACTION Approach. Versey, Stenius, Mazade, Schacht, Costs, Control of Just Good Clinical Practice? The Use of Antipsychotic Medications and Formulary Decision-Making in Large U.S. Prisons and Jails. Salina, Lesondak, Razzano, Weilbaecher, Co-Occurring Mental Disorders Among Incarcerated Women: Preliminary Findings from an Integrated Health Treatment Study. Sullivan, Sacks, McKendrick, Banks, Sacks, Stommel, Modified Therapeutic Community Treatment for Offenders with Co-Occurring Disorders: Mental Health Outcomes. Durkin, Digianantonio, Recidivism Among Child Molesters: A Brief Overview. Hundersmarck, Durkin, Delong, Designing a Classification System for Internet Offenders: Doing Cognitive Distortions.