Mental Health Issues in the Criminal Justice System

Daniel W. Phillips III

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781317993599
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Discover how to best provide effective mental health treatments for criminal offenders

Prisons and jails are increasingly being filled with inmates who suffer from mental illness and need treatment. Mental Health Issues in the Criminal Justice System examines a wide range of the latest research and learned perspectives focusing on the intersection of mental health services and the criminal justice system. Top experts and academics discuss mental health treatment, its availability, it effectiveness, and just how cost effective it truly is to treat those in prisons and jails. This valuable text provides a broad interdisciplinary view of the topic and presents important qualitative and quantitative research of specific topics, such as the effectiveness of prisoner representatives, the causal link between incarceration and mental illness, and the expanding rates of correctional offenders with mental illness.

Mental Health Issues in the Criminal Justice System discusses a wide range of pertinent topics focusing on the viability and functioning of mental health treatment models in prisons and jails. Recommendations on desired correctional mental health programs are presented, along with strategies to better provide therapeutic services. Respected experts provide practical suggestions on research that needs to be addressed in the future. The book is extensively referenced and includes several tables and figures to clearly present data.

Other topics in Mental Health Issues in the Criminal Justice System include:

• the prevalence of mental illness in jails and prisons—and the duty society has to provide appropriate mental health treatment
• three components critical to the success of jail diversion programs
• ethics of doing research on prisoners
• an extended care community corrections model
• the experience of mitigation experts in first degree murder cases in the penalty phase of the trial
• the criminalization of the mentally ill because of fragmentation of mental health services
• correctional offenders with mental illness (OMIs)—and their differences from the general offender population
• the role of the helping alliance in juvenile probation settings
• and much more!

Mental Health Issues in the Criminal Justice System is a timely, insightful text for anyone in the criminal justice or mental health fields, educators, graduate students, and upper-level undergraduate students.

Index

Page numbers in italic designate figures; page numbers followed by “t” designate tables.

ACTION approach, 167–188

action plan, 174

background and principles, 168–171

beta pilot test sites, 172t

community preparedness, 180–182

cross-systems collaboration, 182–183

cross-training curriculum modules, 172t

findings, 177–184

follow-up technical assistance, 174

Kirkpatrick model and, 175–176

limitations of study, 184–185

objectives, 171–173, 172t

outcome evaluation, 176–177, 178–183

points of contact, 173t

process evaluation, 176, 177–178

research methodology, 174–177

summary and recommendations, 185–186

Systems Mapping Exercise, 173–174

technical assistance and implementation, 183–184

transition planning, 179–180

value added of technical assistance, 177

Administrative segregation, 149–165

background, 150

constitutionality, 153–154

criminal and institutional history, 157–159, 158t

demographics, 158t

discussion, 161–163

measures, 155–156

method, 154–156

OMI prevalence, 7–8, 157, 757, 158t

participants, 154–155

prediction, 161, 161t

procedures, 156

psychiatric severity, 159, 159t, 160

psychological functioning and, 151–153

results, 157–161

Adolescent Health and Wellbeing Survey, 132

Adolescent Psychopathology Scale. See APS

Adult support, in juvenile probation, 113–114

Aftercare, 12–13, 87–88

Aftercare planning, 167–188. See also ACTION approach

American Correctional Association (ACA) policy statement, 9

Analytic induction, ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• About the Editor
• Preface
• Mental Illness in Offender Populations: Prevalence, Duty and Implications
• Jail Diversion: Addressing the Needs of Offenders with Mental Illness and Co-Occurring Disorders
• Protecting Prisoners from Harmful Research: Is “Being Heard” Enough?
• Justice Is in the Eye of the Beholder
• An “Extended Care” Community Corrections Model for Seriously Mentally Ill Offenders
• A Story Telling of Tragedy: Mental Illness, Molestation, Suicide, and the Penalty of Death
• Gaols or De Facto Mental Institutions? Why Individuals with a Mental Illness Are Over-Represented in the Criminal Justice System in New South Wales, Australia
• Offenders with Mental Illness in the Correctional System
• The Helping Alliance in Juvenile Probation: The Missing Element in the “What Works” Literature
• The Mental Health of Young Offenders Serving Orders in the Community: Implications for Rehabilitation
• Administrative Segregation for Mentally Ill Inmates
• Preparing Communities for Re-Entry of Offenders with Mental Illness: The ACTION Approach
• Costs, Control or Just Good Clinical Practice? The Use of Antipsychotic Medications and Formulary Decision-Making in Large U.S. Prisons and Jails
• Co-Occurring Mental Disorders Among Incarcerated Women: Preliminary Findings from an Integrated Health Treatment Study
• Modified Therapeutic Community Treatment for Offenders with Co-Occurring Disorders: Mental Health Outcomes
• Recidivism Among Child Molesters: A Brief Overview
• Designing a Classification System for Internet Offenders: Doing Cognitive Distortions
• Index