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Does transinstitutionalization explain the overrepresentation of people with serious mental illness in the criminal justice system?
- Author:
- PRINS Seth J.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 47(6), December 2011, pp.716-722.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Some believe that the overrepresentation of people with serious mental illness in prisons is linked to policies of deinstitutationazation and the closure of many psychiatric hospitals. This phenomenon has been described as transinstitutionalization. After debating the issue, this article concludes that increasing access to psychiatric hospital beds would not reduce the number of people with serious mental illness in prisons, and that community-based treatment is needed to improve both their mental health and criminal justice outcomes.