Download or read book Sourcebook on the Mentally Disordered Prisoner written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Mentally Disordered Inmate and the Law written by Fred Cohen and published by Civic Research Institute, Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mental Disorder Among Prisoners written by Nathaniel Pallone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we know about the mental health of inmates? What are the implications of what we know? Nathaniel J. Pallone characterizes opinion on these questions as falling into two broad camps: the "tender-hearted," those who see an overlap between mental illness and criminal behavior, and are treatment-oriented; and the "tough-minded," those who have little confidence in psychiatric categories, do not really accept arguments about diminished responsibility, and who feel the emphasis should be on punishment. Which is closer to the truth? When this book was first published, the incidence of mental disorder among prisoners was nearly four times greater than among comparable groups in the general population in part because prisoners are disproportionately drawn from demographic groups with a high incidence of mental disorder—nonwhite and from lower socioeconomic strata. But other data is equally dismaying: mental retardation is 50 percent higher; alcohol and drug abuse is between five and eight times greater; and neurogenic disorders may be 1,700 times greater. In all categories of mental illness, the incidence among prisoners is far higher than among the general population. Pallone asserts that evidence suggests that the design and implementation of mental health care needs serious reevaluation, particularly in view of Supreme Court decisions mandating mental health care despite obstacles with implementation. Palone saw mental health care as the primary issue for those who manage prisons. Sadly, this remains as true as when this book was first published.

Download or read book Mentally Disordered Offenders written by John Monahan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its narrowest sense, "mentally disordered offender" refers to the approximately twenty thousand persons per year in the United States who are institutionalized as not guilty by reason of insanity, incompetent to stand trial, and mentally disordered sex offenders, as well as those prisoners transferred to mental hospitals. The real importance of mentally disordered offenders, however, may not lie in this figure. Rather, it may reside in the symbolic role that mentally disordered offenders play for the rest of the legal system. The 3,140 persons residing in state institutions on an average day in 1978 as not guilty by reason of insanity (see Chapter 4), for example, are surely worthy of concern in their own right. But they represent only 1% of the 307,276 persons residing in state and federal prisons in the same period (U. S. Dept. of Justice, 1981). From a purely numeric point of view, the insanity defense truly is "much ado about little" (Pasewark & Pasewark, 1982). The central importance of understanding these persons, however, is that they serve a symbolic function in justifying the imprisonment of the other 99%. The insanity defense, as Stone (1975) has noted, is "the exception that proves the rule. " By exculpating a relatively few people from being criminally responsible for their behavior, the law inculpates all other law violators as liable for social sanction.

Download or read book Source Book on the Mentally Disordered Prisoner written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mentally Disordered Prisoners written by John Charles Gunn and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Mentally Disordered Inmate and the Law written by Fred Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Prisoners of Psychiatry written by Bruce J. Ennis and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1972 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Legal Issues and the Mentally Disordered Prisoner written by Fred Cohen and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Mentally Ill Offender written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Mentally Disordered Offender written by Seymour L. Halleck and published by Amer Psychiatric Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 1987 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph focuses on the clinical and legal issues at the interface of the mental health and criminal justice systems. It presents an informative and provocative overview of the various classes of mentally ill offenders and the salient clinical processes.

Download or read book Law Psychiatry and the Mentally Disordered Offender written by Lynn M. Irvine and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mental Disorder in Remand Prisoners written by Anthony Maden and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Call to Divert Mentally Disordered Offenders from Prison written by Penal Affairs Consortium and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Correctional Mental Health written by Thomas J. Fagan and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Correctional Mental Health is a broad-based, balanced guide for students who are learning to treat criminal offenders in a correctional mental health practice. Featuring a wide selection of readings, this edited text offers a thorough grounding in theory, current research, professional practice, and clinical experience. It emphasizes a biopsychosocial approach to caring for the estimated 20% of all U.S. prisoners who have a serious mental disorder. Providing a balance between theoretical and practical perspectives throughout, the text also provides readers with a big-picture framework for assessing current correctional mental health and criminal justice issues, offering clear strategies for addressing these challenges.

Download or read book Exploring Criminal Justice The Essentials written by Robert M. Regoli and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Criminal Justice: The Essentials provides an extensive overview of the American criminal justice system in a concise and accessible format. This engaging text examines the people and processes that make up the system and how they interact. It also covers the historic context and modern features of the criminal justice system and encourages students to think about how current events in crime affect their everyday lives. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition.

Download or read book Psychological Classification of the Adult Male Prison Inmate written by Patricia Van Voorhis and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes and examines five psychological systems for classifying adult male prison inmates: Warren's I-level; Megargee's MMPI-Based Criminal Classification System; Hunt's Conceptual Level; Quay's Adult Internal Management System; and the Jesness Inventory Classification System. Also presents psychometric data on the reliability and validity of each system and illustrates different adjustment patterns of prison inmates. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.