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

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...

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

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 ...

Short versus longer term effectiveness of an outreach program for the homeless mentally ill.

Presents 12-month follow-up results from an outreach/linkage intervention with persons who are homeless and mentally ill, contrasting these with results obtained at 4 months. Both sets reflect the success of the program in placing individuals in independent housing. However, longer term data provide useful information regarding client movement patterns and increased tenure in nonhomeless living...

Jail Mental Health Resourcing: A Conceptual and Empirical Study of Social Determinants.

U.S. county jails hold large populations of mentally ill inmates but have rarely been researched quantitatively to assess their collective capacity for providing mental health treatment. This research uses ordinal logit and a partial parallel slopes model and a large sample of U.S. counties to assess conceptualized links between local institutional and structural indicators and jail mental heal...