BACKGROUND Criminal careers have been extensively studied in general population sample, but less is known about such patterns among people with major mental illness, and where so, criminal justice expenditure has not been taken into account. AIMS Our aim was to examine criminal justice system expenditure over time in one Florida county. Our main research question was whether treatment for men...

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1 Gary LaFree is a Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland, College Park. Robert J. Bursik, Sr., is a Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. James Short is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Washington State University. Ralph B. Taylor is a Professor in the Departm...

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