Genality, mental imbalance and criminality

Mental illness, criminality, and citizenship.

Recent efforts to address the needs of mentally ill persons arrested for minor crimes have focused on providing treatment and controlling petty criminal behavior, most notably through diversion programs that shunt offenders from the criminal justice to the mental health and substance abuse treatment sys tems.1' 2Diversion programs have been partially suc cessful in bridging the gap between trea...

Criminality and mental health: implications for society.

Mental illness, criminality, and citizenship revisited.

In a 2000 editorial in The Journal, Rowe and Baranoski introduced the concept of citizenship as a theoretical framework for developing programatic and policy initiatives aimed at the community integration of persons with mental illness and criminal justice histories. Rowe and colleagues defined citizenship as a strong connection to the rights, responsibilities, roles, resources, and relationshi...

Opinions concerning the insanity plea and criminality among mental patients.

Although numerous discourses relating to the insanity plea are to be found in the psychiatric and legal literature, there are but few empirical studies that address even the fundamental issue of its incidence and success rate.! Similarly, to the authors' knowledge, there is but one study concerned with the attitudes of individuals toward the insanity plea; that study was a survey made of lawyer...

Personality and later criminality