Does transinstitutionalization explain the overrepresentation of people with serious mental illnesses in the criminal justice system?

Community Mental Health Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 716-722

  Prins, Seth J ^a,b  

^a Criminal Justice Mental Health Consensus Project   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Community mental health services; Correctional institutions; Deinstitutionalization; Incarceration; Jail; Mentally ill offenders; Prison

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRIMINAL LAW; DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MENTAL PATIENT; PRISON; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; CRIMINAL LAW; DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; MALE; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; PRISONERS; PRISONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 82655162297     PISSN: 00103853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10597-011-9420-y     Document Type: Review

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