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This paper analyses and explores one aspect of the relationship between the mental health system and the criminal justice system. Specifically, it deals with that portion of a jail population which, at one time or another, had been in the care of psychiatric hospitals. The data were collected from 339 inmates serving time in three New Jersey institutions (urban, suburban and rural). The findings suggest that the deinstitutionalization movement, marked by stringent requirements for hospitalization in mental hospitals, and less onerous criteria for fitness to be discharged, has created a socially marginal class of people who are increasingly becoming a burden on our lock-ups and jails.

For two millenia the classical address to the community and to society at large has begun with orbi-the city and the world. And I shall use this address, but add the term arte, our art, our science, our discipline.This, then, is my accounting to you on the state of our Society of Criminology, the world of crime and justice, and the state of the art and science of criminology.

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