Mental Health Issues in the Criminal Justice System

Prisons and jails are increasingly being filled with inmates who suffer from mental illness and need treatment. Mental Health Issues in the Criminal Justice System examines a wide range of the latest research and learned perspectives focusing on the intersection of mental health services and the criminal justice system. Top experts and academics discuss mental health treatment, its availability, it effectiveness, and just how cost effective it truly is to treat those in prisons and jails. This valuable text provides a broad interdisciplinary view of the topic and presents important qualitative and quantitative research of specific topics, such as the effectiveness of prisoner representatives, the causal link between incarceration and mental illness, and the expanding rates of correctional offenders with mental illness.

Author: Daniel W. III Phillips
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 04/15/2008
Pages: 292
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 8.32h x 6.40w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9780789037701

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2008 pg. 161

About the Author
Daniel W. Phillips III PhD is associate professor of sociology and criminal justice and the criminal justice program coordinator at Lindsey Wilson College.