The Criminalization of Mental Illness: Crisis and Opportunity for the Justice System
by Kelly Frailing, Risdon Slate, W. Johnson, Jacqueline Buffington
The Criminalization of Mental Illness explores the complex relationship between mental illness and the justice system. Focusing on the challenges and consequences of criminalizing mental health concerns, the book also considers opportunities for improving justice-system responses and understanding the wider social issues involved.
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The Criminalization of Mental Illness: Crisis and Opportunity for the Justice System examines the relationship between mental illness and the justice system.
The book addresses the challenges created when mental health concerns are handled through criminal justice institutions.
It considers the broader implications of this relationship for individuals, communities, and justice-system responses.
Written by Kelly Frailing, Risdon Slate, W. Johnson, and Jacqueline Buffington, this work presents mental illness and criminalization as both a pressing crisis and an opportunity for reform.
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