The Mentally Abnormal Offender

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 ...

Management of the Mentally Abnormal Offender

Discussions about the prediction of dangerousness, a legal or social construct, often extend beyond forensic psychiatry into the general practice of psychiatry. Dangerousness can drive the entrance to and exit from the mental health and forensic system. Better conceptualized as risk prediction, it has been seen as a core skill for forensic psychiatry and an increasing requirement for general ps...

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.

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