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Impressions of US forensic services
- Author:
- COLLINS Sharon
- Journal article citation:
- Changes an International Journal of Psychology and Psychotherapy, 11(2), June 1993, pp.111-114.
Brief notes from an eight-week study tour of facilities in the USA for mentally disordered offenders.
Individual community-based treatment of offenders with mental illness: relationship to recidivism
- Authors:
- ABRACEN Jeffrey, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 31(10), 2016, pp.1842-1858.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This study explores the effectiveness of psychological intervention at reducing the risk of recidivism among a group of high-risk, high-need offenders housed in a Community Correctional Centre (CCC) operated by the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC). File reviews on 136 male federal offenders living in a CCC in a large metropolitan area were included in the present investigation. Previous research on this sample by our team indicated that the majority of this sample met diagnostic criteria for a variety of psychiatric conditions. Data on the number of individual counselling sessions received and progress in treatment were collected from official file information for the purpose of the present investigation. After accounting for actuarially assessed risk, moderate doses of treatment were found to be associated with 7.7 times less likelihood of recidivism, and high doses of treatment were found to be associated with 11.6 times less likelihood of recidivism, when compared with offenders who received no treatment or were only assessed for treatment. These results are discussed in the context of correctional models of offender risk assessment and rehabilitation. It is notable that a very simple measure of global mental health treatment attendance, with no consideration of such factors as responsiveness, added considerable incremental predictive validity to the results after having statistically accounted for actuarially assessed risk of recidivism. (Publisher abstract)
A tale of two crises: mental health treatment in corrections
- Author:
- KNOLL James
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dual Diagnosis, 3(1), 2006, pp.7-21.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article discusses the current criminal justice system for offenders for mental health problems in the United States, and the difficulties they face obtaining adequate treatment. The author goes on to cite a number of recent initiatives and developments in the criminal justice and correctional systems in the United States that provide some reason for optimism, and signal some positive progress. Initiatives include: mental health courts; structured 24-hour care, prison intermediate care units, direct supervision jails and intensive discharge planning. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Crime and punishment
- Author:
- FOGARTY Maggie
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 12.3.92, 1992, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Should people with psychopathic disorders be sent to prison or treated in hospital? Reports on challenges to current practice and the legal and service implications.
Grendon - the care of acute psychiatric patients - a pragmatic solution
- Author:
- SELBY M.F.G.
- Journal article citation:
- Prison Service Journal, 81, Winter 1990, pp.19-21.
- Publisher:
- Her Majesty's Prison Service of England and Wales
The problem of coping with the psychiatric offender can cause acute and painful difficulty within a prison setting. Moreover, with the closure of many mental hospitals beginning to have an effect in the wider community, a growing number of offenders with psychiatric disorders are finding themselves in trouble with the courts, and inevitably are imprisoned. The Acute Psychiatric Unit at HMP Grendon provides an example of the opportunity for the positive care of this group of offenders, and offers some optimistic indications that an appropriate regime can be established.
Should the prison medical service develop its role in the treatment of mentally ill offenders
- Author:
- RICHER A.D.
- Journal article citation:
- Prison Service Journal, 81, Winter 1990, pp.15-18.
- Publisher:
- Her Majesty's Prison Service of England and Wales
Argues that however preferable it is to treat the mentally ill in hospital, nonetheless many do find their way into prison and therefore, proper provision should be made.
Prisons and Special Hospitals: custodial care
- Author:
- KINSLEY Joy
- Journal article citation:
- Prison Service Journal, 81, Winter 1990, pp.40-43.
- Publisher:
- Her Majesty's Prison Service of England and Wales
Considers the establishment of Special Hospitals, and the consequences of their move to the norms and standards of the NHS and the creation of the Special Hospitals Service Authority, and the effect on prisoners/patients.
Introduction to the Dutch De Borg institutions
- Author:
- ROOS Jacqueline
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities and Offending Behaviour, 1(1), April 2010, pp.29-32.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
In the Netherlands there are different facilities for the treatment and care of mentally disabled people: ordinary care institutions where people live and work; mental health care institutions that provide treatment; and specialised treatment units for people with learning disabilities and severe challenging behaviour. In this article the author introduces De Borg, a collaboration of five institutions in the Netherlands for adults with mild learning disabilities (intellectual disabilities) and severe problem behaviour. These institutions have different backgrounds: one is a TBS facility (a special forensic psychiatric facility); one a mental health care; and three for mentally disabled people. All five organisations offer temporary treatment, where clients come in from other institutions and prisons, and, after treatment, leave – normally to lower care institutions for the mentally disabled. A total of 224 beds are available for inpatient treatment and 800 places for outpatients. Previously, all facilities were either low or high security, but there are currently plans to build a medium secure unit for patients with learning disabilities. The author presents some results of the research that has taken place in the treatment units about the characteristics of the clients, and concludes with recent developments in De Borg institutions, such as the creation of a common ‘vision on treatment and treatment programmes’ and the improvement of treatment programmes.
A theoretical framework for goal-directed care within the prison system
- Authors:
- BULTEN Erik, VISSERS Annelies, OEI Karel
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review Journal, 13(3), September 2008, pp.40-50.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Mental health care in prisons involves many stakeholders. As a consequence, the goals involved are divergent but there is no sound theoretical framework that accounts for the complexity of care in prisons. This paper considers a broad theory and its conceptual framework that differentiates between prisoners with emotional suffering and those without, the need for care from an objective point of view as opposed to a subjective one, and the need for care related to mental health problems versus care related to limiting recidivism. The article focuses on the situation in the Netherlands, and the actual care and treatment in a Dutch prison are described.
Mental Health Care for American Indians in Prison
- Authors:
- EARLE Kathleen A., BRADIGAN Bruce, MORGENBESSER Leonard
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 10(3/4), 2001, pp.111-131.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Based on an earlier finding that as many Native Americans in upstate New York received mental health care in prison as outside of prison during a 10-month period, this study was designed to investigate if prisons had become an alternative treatment option for Native Americans with a mental illness in New York State. The study was not able to answer this question due to the limited number of cases and to outside constraints. However, it is possible from the results to provide a picture of mental health needs and attitudes among Native American inmates which is surprising and instructive for those who provide psychiatric care to American Indians, either within or outside of prison walls. A noteworthy finding was the importance placed by these inmates on the use of culturally appropriate ceremonies to assist in their rehabilitation. Low rates of serious mental illness among the American Indian sample highlight the need for further study in this area.