Criminal justice/mental health consensus: Improving responses to people with mental illness

Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 30-51

  Thompson, Michael D ^a   Reuland, Melissa ^b   Souweine, Daniel ^a  

^a Criminal Justice Programs   (United States)

^b Police Executive Research Forum   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Consensus; Corrections; Courts; Criminal justice; Diversion; Law enforcement; Mental health; Reentry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037247834     PISSN: 00111287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011128702239234     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Bernstein, R., & Koyanagi, C. (2001). Disintegrating systems: The state of states, public mental health systems. Washington, DC: Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
2. California Board of Corrections. (2000, June). Mentally III Offender Crime Reduction Grant Program: Annual report. Retrieved from www.bdcorr.ca.gov/cppd/miocrg/miocrg_ publications/miocrg_publications.htm
3. Cochran, S., Deane, M. W., & Borum, R. (2000). Improving police response to mentally ill people. Psychiatric Services, 5/(10), 1315-1316
4. Council of State Governments, Police Executive Research Forum, Pretrial Services Resource Center, Association of State Correctional Administrators, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, and the Center for Behavioral Health, Justice, and Public Policy. (2002). Criminal Justice/Mental Health Consensus Project. New York: Council of State Governments
5. Deane, M. W., Steadman, H. J., Borum, R., Veysey, B. M., & Morrissey, J. P. (1999). Emerging partnerships between mental health and law enforcement. Psychiatric Services, 50(1), 99-101
6. Ditton, P. M. (1999). Mental health and treatment of inmates and probationers: Special report. Washington, DC: Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics
7. Fleischner, R. D. (1998). Advance directives for mental health care: An analysis of state statutes. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 4
8. Grob, G. N. (1994). The mad among us: A history of the care of America's mentally ill. New York: Free Press
9. Hasselbrack, A. M. (2001). Opting in to mental health courts. Corrections Compendium, 26(10), 4-25
10. Isaac, R. J., & Armat, V. C. (1990). Madness in the streets: How psychiatry and the law abandoned the mentally ill. New York: Free Press
11. Kondo, L. L. (2000). Therapeutic jurisprudence. Issues, analysis and applications: Advocacy of the establishment of mental health specialty courts in the provision of therapeutic justice for mentally ill offenders. Seattle University Law Review, 24, 373-464
12. Kupers, T. A. (1999). Prison madness: The mental health crisis behind bars and what we must do about it. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
13. Lurigio, A. J., & Swartz, J. A. (2000). Changing contours of the criminal justice system to meet the needs of persons with serious mental illness. Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice
14. National Coalition for the Homeless. (1999). NCH Fact Sheet #5. Retrieved from www. nationalhomeless.org/mental.html
15. National GAINS Center for People with Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System. (1999). The courage to change: A guide for communities to create integrated services for people with co-occurring disorders in the justice system. Delmar, NY: Author
16. Slate, R. N. (2000). Courts for mentally ill offenders: Necessity or abdication of responsibility. In G. L. Mays & P. R. Gregware (Eds.), Courts and justice (2nd ed., pp. 432-450). Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland
17. Solnit, A. J. (2000, February). The cost and effectiveness of jail diversion: A report to the Joint Standing Committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters pertaining to The Judiciary, Public Health and Appropriations (Unpublished report)
18. Steadman, H. J. (1992). Boundary spanners: A key component for the effective interactions of the justice and mental health systems. Law and Human Behavior, 16(1), 75-87
19. Steadman, H. J., Davidson, S., & Brown, C. (2001). Mental health courts: Their promise and unanswered questions. Psychiatric Services, 52, 457-458
20. Stone, T. H. (1997). Therapeutic implications of incarceration for persons with severe mental disorders: Searching for rational health policy. American Journal of Criminal Law, 24, 283-358
21. Teplin, L., & Abram, K. (1991). Co-occurring disorders among mentally ill jail detainees: Implications for public policy. American Psychologist, 46(10), 1036-1045
22. Travis, J., Solomon, A., & Waul, M. (2001). From prison to home: The dimensions and consequences of prisoner reentry. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute
23. Treatment not jail: A plan to rebuild community mental health. (1999, March 17). Sacramento Bee, p. B6
24. U.S. Surgeon General. (1999). Mental health: A report of the Surgeon General. Rockville, MD: Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Surgeon General
25. Ventura, L. A., Cassel, C. A., Jacoby, J. E., & Huang, B. (1998, October). Case management and recidivism of mentally ill persons released from jail. Psychiatric Services, 49(10), 1330-1337