Beyond criminalization: Toward a criminologically informed framework for mental health policy and services research

Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 544-557

  Fisher, William H ^a   Silver, Eric ^b   Wolff, Nancy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Criminal justice; Mental health services; Offenders with mental illness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL PATIENT; OFFENDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNISHMENT; RISK REDUCTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; LAW; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RISK; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOLOGY;

CRIMINAL LAW; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; POLICY MAKING; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33746917557     PISSN: 0894587X     EISSN: 15733289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10488-006-0072-0     Document Type: Article

References (71)

1. Abramson, M. F. (1972). The criminalization of mentally disordered behavior: Possible side effect of a new commitment law. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 23, 101-107.
2. Akers, R. L. (1998). Social learning and social structure: A general theory of crime and deviance. Boston: Northeastern University Press.
3. Appelbaum, K. L., Fisher, W. H., Nestelbaum, Z., & Bateman, A. (1992). Are pretrial commitments used to control nuisance behavior? Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 43, 603-607.
4. Appelbaum, P. S. (1994). Almost a revolution: Mental health law and the limits of change. New York: Oxford University Press.
5. Becker, H. (1963). Outsiders: Studies in the sociology of deviance. New York: The Free Press.
6. Caspi, A., & Moffitt, T. (1994). Continuity amidst change: A paradoxical theory of personality coherence. Psychological Inquiry, 4, 247-71.
7. Cohen, L. E., & Felson, M. (1979). Social change and crime rate trends: A routine activity approach. American Sociological Review, 44, 588-608.
8. Council of State Governments (2002). Criminal justice/mental health consensus model. New York: Council of State Governments.
9. Dennis, D. L., & Monahan, J. (1996). Introduction. In Dennis, D. L., & Monahan, J. (Eds.), Coercion and aggressive community treatment: A new frontier in mental health law (pp. 1-9). New York: Plenum.
10. Ditton, P. (1999). Mental health and treatment of inmates and probationers. Washington, DC: US Dept of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics.
11. Draine, J., & Solomon, P. (1994). Jail recidivism and the intensity of case management services among homeless persons with mental illness leaving jail. Journal of Psychiatry and Law, 22, 245-261.
12. Draine, J., Solomon, P., Salzer, M. S., Culhane, D. P., & Hadley, T. R. (2003). Role of social disadvantage in crime, joblessness, and homelessness among persons with serious mental illness. Psychiatric Services, 53, 565-573.
13. Durham, M. L., Fisher, W. H., & Pierce, G. L. (1986). The impact of legislative change, resource constraints and judicial decisions on length of stay of patients admitted to a state mental hospital. Law, Medicine and Health Care, 13, 290-296.
14. Durham, M. L., & LaFond, J. Q. (1985). The empirical consequences and policy implications of broadening the statutory criteria for civil commitment aw. Yale Law and Policy Review, 3, 395-446.
15. Durham, M. L., & Pierce, G. L. (1982). Beyond deinstitutionalization: A commitment law in evolution. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 33, 216-219.
16. Engel, R. S., & Silver, E. (2001). Policing mentally disordered suspects: A reexamination of the criminalization hypothesis. Criminology, 39, 225-252.
17. Faris, R. E., & Dunham, H. W. (1939). Mental disorders in urban areas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
18. Fischer, P. (1988). Criminal activity among the homeless mentally ill: A study of arrests in Baltimore. Hospital & Community Psychiatry, 39, 46-51.
19. Fisher, W. H., Packer, I. K., Banks, S. M., Smith, D., Simon, L. J., & Roy-Bujnowski, K. (2002). Self-reported lifetime psychiatric hospitalization histories of mentally ill jail detainees: Comparison with a non-incarcerated national sample. Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research, 29, 458-465.
20. Fisher, W. H., Packer, I. K., Simon, L. J., & Smith, D. (2000). Community mental health services and the prevalence of severe mental illness in local jails: Are they related? Administration and Policy in Mental Health, 27, 371-382.
21. Fountain House (1999). Gold Award: The wellspring of the Clubhouse Model for social and vocational adjustment of persons with serious mental illness. Psychiatric Services, 50, 1473-1476.
22. Freidson, E. (1970). Profession of medicine: A study of the sociology of applied knowledge. New York: Harper & Row.
23. Geller, J. L., & Fisher, W. H. (1993). Transitional residences in the linear continuum: Debunking the myth. American Journal of Psychiatry, 150, 1070-1076.
24. Geller, J. L., Fisher, W. H., Wirth-Cauchon, J. L., & Simon, L. J. (1990). Second generation deinstitutionalization I: Brewster v. Dukakis's impact on state hospital case mix. American Journal of Psychiatry, 147, 982-987.
25. Glueck, S., & Glueck, E. (1950). Unraveling juvenile delinquency. New York: Commonwealth Fund.
26. Glueck, S., & Glueck, E. (1968). Delinquents and non-delinquents in perspective. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press.
27. Gottfredson, M., & Hirschi, T. (1990). A general theory of crime. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press
28. Griffin, P. A., Steadman, H. J., & Petrila, J. (2002). The use of criminal charges and sanctions in mental health courts. Psychiatric Services, 53, 1285-1289.
29. Hartwell, S. W. (2003). Prison, hospital or community: Community re-entry and mentally Ill offenders. In W. H. Fisher (Ed.), Community-based interventions for criminal offenders with mental illness. Research in community and mental health, (Vol. 12, pp. 199-220).
30. Hartwell, S. W., & Orr, K. (1999). The Massachusetts Forensic Transition Team for mentally ill offenders re-entering the community. Psychiatric Services, 50, 1220-1222.
31. Hiday, V. A. (1992). Civil commitment and arrests: An investigation of the criminalization thesis. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 180, 184-191.
32. Hiday, V. A. (1999). Mental illness and the criminal justice system. In A. Horwitz & T. Scheid (Eds.), The handbook for the study of mental health: Social contexts, theories, and systems (pp. 508-525). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
33. Horney, J., Osgood, D. W., & Marshall, I. H. (1995). Criminal careers in the short term: Intra-individual variability in crime and its relationship to local life circumstances. American Sociological Review, 60, 655-673.
34. Human Rights Watch (2003). Ill-Equipped: U.S. prisons and offenders with mental illness. New York: Human Rights Watch.
35. Jackson, R. L. (2001). The clubhouse model: Empowering applications of theory to generalist practice (1st ed.). Belmont: CA, Wadsworth
36. Kessler, R. C., McGonagle, K. A., Zhao, S., Nelson, C. B., & Huges, M. (1994). Lifetime and 12-month prevalence of DSM-III-R psychiatric disorders in the United States: Results from the National Comorbidity Survey. Archives of General Psychiatry, 51, 5-18.
37. Lamb, H. R., & Weinberger, L. E. (1998). Persons with severe mental illness in jails and prisons: A Review. Psychiatric Services, 49, 483-492.
38. Laub, J. H., Nagin, D. S., & Sampson, R. J. (1998). Trajectories of change in criminal offending: Good marriages and the desistence process. American Sociological Review, 63, 225-238.
39. Macias, C., Barriera, P., Alden, M., & Boyd, A. S. (2001). The ICCD Benchmarks for Clubhouses: A practical approach to quality improvement in psychiatric rehabilitation. Psychiatric Services, 52, 207-213.
40. McGaha, A., Boothroyd, R., Poythress, N., Petrila, J., & Ort, R. (2002). Lessons from the Broward County mental health court evaluation. Evaluation and Program Planning, 25, 125-135.
41. Moffitt, T. E. (1993). Adolescence-limited and life course persistent anti- social behavior: A developmental taxonomy. Psychological Review, 1993, 674-701.
42. Nagin, D. S., & Farrington, D. P. (1992). The stability of criminal potential from childhood to adulthood. Criminology, 30, 236-260.
43. Nagin, D. S., & Land, K. C. (1993). Age, criminal careers, and population heterogeneity: specification and estimation of a non-parametric, mixed Poisson model. Criminology, 31, 327-362.
44. Nagin, D. S., & Paternoster, R. (1991). On the relationship of past to future participation in delinquency. Criminology, 29, 163-189.
45. Osgood, D. W., Wilson, J. K., O'Malley, P. M., Bachman, J. G., & Johnston, L. D. (1996). Routine activities and individual deviant behavior. American Sociological Review, 61, 635-655.
46. Pierce, G. L., Durham, M. L., & Fisher, W. H. (1986). The impact of public policy and publicity on admissions to state mental hospitals. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 11, 41-66.
47. President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health (2003). Achieving the promise: Transforming mental health care in America. Washington DC.
48. Robins, L. N., & Regier, D. A. (1991). Psychiatric disorders in America. New York: The Free Press.
49. Rose, D. R., & Clear, T. R. (1998). Incarceration, social capital, and crime: Implications for social disorganization theory. Criminology, 36, 441-479.
50. Sampson, R. J., & Laub, J. H. (1993). Crime in the making: Pathways and turning points through life. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press.
51. Sampson, R. J., & Laub, J. H. (2003). Life course desisters? Trajectories of crime among delinquent boys followed to age 70. Criminology, 41, 555-592.
52. Silver, E., Mulvey, E., & Swanson, J. (2002). Neighborhood structural characteristics and mental disorder: Faris and Dunham revisited. Social Science and Medicine, 55, 1457-1470.
53. Skinner, E. A., Steinwachs, D. M., & Kasper, J. A. (1992). Family perspectives on the service needs of people with severe and persistent mental illness, Part I: Characteristics of families and consumers. Innovations, 1, 23-30.
54. Soros Foundation (1996). Research Brief: Mental illness in US jails: Diverting the non-violent, low-level offender. Occasional Paper Series Number 1. Center on Crime, Communities and Culture. http://www.soros.org/crime
55. Steadman, H. J., Barbera, S. S., & Dennis, D. L. (1994). A national survey of jail diversion programs for mentally ill detainees. Hospital & Community Psychiatry, 45(11), 1109-1113.
56. Steadman, H. J., Davidson, S., & Brown, C. (2001). Mental health courts: Their promises and unanswered questions. Psychiatric Services, 52, 457-458.
57. Steadman, H. J., Deane, M. W., Morrissey, J. P., Westcott, M. L., Salasin, S., & Shapiro, S. (1999). A SAMHSA research initiative assessing the effectiveness of jail diversion programs for mentally ill persons. Psychiatric Services, 50, 1620-1623.
58. Steadman, H. J., Monahan, J., Duffee, B., Hartstone, E., & Ribbins, P. C. (1984). The impact of state mental hospital deinstitutionalization on US prison populations, 1968-1978. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 75, 474-490.
59. Steadman, H. J., Morris, S. M., & Dennis, D. L. (1995). The diversion of mentally ill persons from jails to community-based services: A profile of programs. American Journal of Public Health, 85, 1630-1635.
60. Steadman, H. J., & Naples, M. (2005). Assessing the effectiveness of jail diversion programs for persons with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 23, 163-170.
61. Steadman, H. J., Redlich, A. D., Griffin, P., Petrila, J., & Monahan, J. (2005). From referral to disposition: Case processing in seven mental health courts. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 23, 215-226.
62. Teplin, L. A. (1990). The prevalence of severe mental disorders among male urban jail detainees. American Journal of Public Health, 80, 663-669.
63. Teplin, L. A. (1991). The criminalization of the mentally ill: Speculation in search of data. Psychological Bulletin, 94, 54-67.
64. Teplin, L. A., Abram, K. M., & McClelland, G. M. (1996). Prevalence of psychiatric disorders among incarcerated women jail detainees. Archives of General Psychiatry, 53, 505-512.
65. Torrey, E. F. (1995). Editorial: Jails and prisons - America's new mental hospitals. American Journal of Public Health, 85, 1611-1613.
66. Torrey, E. F., Steiber, J., Exekiel, J., Wolfe, S. M., Sharfstein, J., Nobel, J. H., & Flynn, L. M. (1992). Criminalizing the seriously mentally ill: The abuse of jails as mental hospitals. Washington, DC: Public Citizen's Health Research Group.
67. Warr, M. (2002). Companions in crime: The social aspects of criminal conduct. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
68. Warren, C. A. B. (1981). The court of ast resort: L and mental health. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
69. Waters, B. (1992). The work unit: The heart of the Clubhouse. Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal, 16, 41-48.
70. Wolff, N. (2003). Courting the court: Courts as agents for treatment and justice. In W. H. Fisher (Ed.), Research in community and mental health (Vol. 12, pp. 143-198). Boston MA: Elsevier Science.
71. Wolff, N., & Draine, J. (2004). The dynamics of social capital of prisoners and community reentry: Ties that bind? Journal of Correctional Health Care, 10, 457-490.