The shift of psychiatric inpatient care from hospitals to jails and prisons

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 529-534

  Lamb, H Richard ^a,c   Weinberger, Linda E ^b  

^a Division of Psychiatry   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; JUSTICE; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL PATIENT; PRISON; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW;

COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRIME; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PRISONS; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 29444439071     PISSN: 10936793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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