The overrepresentation of people with serious mental illness in the criminal justice system is
a complex problem. A long-standing explanation for this phenomenon, the criminalization …

With chapters written by leading scholars and researchers, the third edition of A Handbook
for the Study of Mental Health provides an updated, comprehensive review of the sociology …

Forensic e-mental health is an area of psychology that is relatively underdeveloped
considering technological advancements and the many mental health needs of justice …

This comprehensive, authoritative text provides a state-of-the-art review of current
knowledge and best practices for helping adults with psychiatric disabilities move forward in …

Recent scholarship has affirmed the importance of overall health and wellbeing for people
exposed to incarceration. Specifically, researchers have begun to ascertain how physical …

Objectives. We examined the provision of behavioral health services to youths detained in
Indiana between 2008 and 2012 and the impact of services on recidivism. Method. We …

Although the research on specialty mental health probation (SMHP) is promising, there have
been no randomized controlled trials (RCT) of the prototypical model advanced in the …

A prolonged era of mass incarceration has led to staggering rates of imprisonment in the
United States, particularly among some of the most vulnerable and marginalized groups …

The crisis intervention team (CIT) is a tool that can be used to foster pre‐booking diversion of
individuals with mental illness from the criminal justice system and into community treatment …

The issues linked to vulnerability in the criminal justice system were showcased in 2020 in
ways that leave us with no doubt about the inadequacies of policing practices. A global …