Persons with severe mental illness in jails and prisons: A review
- 1 June 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in New Directions for Mental Health Services
- Vol. 2001 (90) , 29-49
- https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.23320019005
Abstract
One of the greatest problems of deinstitutionalization has been the very large number of persons with severe mental illness who have entered the criminal justice system instead of the mental health system.Keywords
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