The Mentally Ill Offender

California law enforcement agencies and the mentally ill offender.

This article reviews the results of a survey of California law enforcement agencies, designed to assess the experience of these agencies with mentally ill offenders (MIOs) and the training of their officers to interact with this population. The results suggest that most law enforcement officers are given insufficient training to identify, manage, and appropriately refer the MIOs they are increa...

Community intervention with the mentally ill offender: a residential program.

The shortage of shelter as an alternative to continued hospitalization has been identified as a major reason for the retention of up to 57 per cent of currently hospitalized patients (Pollack and Taube, 1975). This shortage has serious ramifications for certain populations at risk, particularly mentally ill offenders for whom careful planning upon release from a hospital is especially critical....

The Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act and its inappropriate non-violent offender limitation.

The Mentally Abnormal Offender

The mentally ill offender: a brighter tomorrow through the eyes of the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act of 2004.