Traumatized offenders: Don't look now, but your jail's also your mental health center

Journal of Trauma and Dissociation

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 81-95

  Kinsler, Philip J ^a   Saxman, Anna ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Off Defender Gen Stt of Vermont   (United States)

Author keywords

Legal system; Mental illness; Prisoners; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHLETE; FAMILY VIOLENCE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL HEALTH CENTER; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; OFFENDER; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISON; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SEXUAL ABUSE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SURVIVOR; UNITED STATES; VICTIM;

FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PRISONERS; PRISONS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84905797356     PISSN: 15299732     EISSN: 15299740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J229v08n02_06     Document Type: Article

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