Mentally Ill Offender Crime Reduction Grant Program Overview of Statewide Evaluation Findings

The Dangerous Mentally Ill Offender Program: Cost Effectiveness 2.5 Years after Participants’ Prison Release

“Dangerous Mentally Ill Offender” (DMIO) program in the previous Washington State Institute for Public Policy (Institute) evaluation are sustained at the 2.5year mark. The subsequent reduction in felonies associated with the program is valued, by taxpayers and crime victims, at approximately $820 per participant minus program costs; this represents a return of about $1.03 for every public dolla...

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

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

The Law and the Mentally Abnormal Offender

mentally ill, has, paradoxically enough, aggravated the problem of caring for the mentally abnormal offender. In accord with its spirit, there has been a wholesale discharge of patients from psychiatric hospitals, but inadequate after-care has been provided for many of them. Incapable of survival in society without support, they have bee} redistributed in the community i".. variety of socially ...

A cross-sectional study of psychosocial and criminal factors associated with arrest in mentally ill female detainees.

In this study, the relationship was examined among clinical, criminal, and sociodemographic characteristics and the severity of the criminal charge of mentally ill female detainees admitted to the women's psychiatric unit at a large urban jail. In a cross-sectional study, 96 randomly selected female detainees were interviewed by one of two trained interviewers using the Structured Clinical Inte...