Mental health and criminal justice / Anne F. Segal, J.D., Ph.D., L. Thomas Winfree, Jr., Ph.D., Stan Friedman, Ph.D.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Criminal justice series.
Main Authors: Segal, Anne F. (Author)
Winfree, L. Thomas, Jr., 1946- (Author)
Friedman, Stan (Clinical psychologist) (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Wolters Kluwer, [2019]
Series:Criminal justice series.
Subjects:
Mentally ill offenders > United States.
Mentally ill offenders > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Mental health laws > United States.
Forensic psychiatry > United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Forensic psychiatry.
Mental health laws.
Mentally ill offenders.
Mentally ill offenders > Legal status, laws, etc.
United States.
Physical Description:xxiii, 449 pages : illustration, map ; 26 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Mental health and criminal justice
  • A brief history of mental illness
  • The brain and the mind
  • Etiology of mental illness
  • First responders and street encounters
  • Involuntary and voluntary commitments
  • Legal competency and the criminal trial
  • Mentally ill defendants: defenses, pleas, and verdicts
  • Correctional treatment of the mentally ill
  • Juveniles and mental illness: special considerations
  • Mental illness issues in the community
  • Justice for the mentally ill: human rights and at-risk groups.