Chronic Mental Illness and the Criminal Justice System

McFarland, Bentson H.; Faulkner, Larry R.; Bloom, Joseph D.; Hallaux, R; Bray, J. Donald

doi:10.1176/ps.40.7.718

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“…Sex was not predictive, however, of either a history of arrests or of postadmission arrests in the sample studied by Holcomb and Ahr (1988). McFarland et al (1989) also found that sex was not related to a history of arrests. In the study by Finlayson et al (1983), male and female patients had very similar levels of "police contact," but for men, "police contact" was a result of being a suspect more often than it was for women.…”

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confidence: 65%

“…According to this hypothesis, samples of patients formed early in the history of deinstitutionalization should have relatively low proportions of patients with prior arrests. McFarland et al (1989) reported a similar high percentage (52%) of patients with arrest records. Sampling bias may account for part of this high rate, in that family members of patients who had been arrested may have been more likely to respond to the survey.…”

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confidence: 69%

“…Holcomb and Ahr (1988) found that longer histories of receiving mental health care were predictive of arrest histories and postadmission arrests. McFarland et al (1989) found no relation between previous hospitalizations and arrest histories.…”

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confidence: 72%

“…The small sample size (N = 82) may be a factor, as well as the apparent lack of major psychiatric diagnoses in this group. McFarland et al (1989) compared the percentage that had been arrested with the percentage of the population of the western states with self-reported arrest records, as found in the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, 1986. Even after adjusting for sex and age, the standardized rate of 28% was significantly higher than the self-reported rate of 17% for the western states.…”

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“…While comparisons with national figures are not entirely appropriate, the authors noted that the chronic mentally ill seemed to be more likely to be jailed, and less likely to be convicted or imprisoned, than the average. McFarland et al (1989) used the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, 1986 to compare the percentage of their sample -that had been arrested with the population of the western states. Taking demographic variables into account, they arrived at a standardized rate of 28% of psychiatric patients with arrest histories.…”

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In this study, we sampled sworn police officers from three law enforcement agencies (n=452), each of which had different system responses to mentally ill people in crisis. One department relies on field assistance from a mobile mental health crisis team, a second has a team of officers specially trained in crisis intervention and management of mentally ill people in crisis, and a third has a team of in‐house social workers to assist in responding to calls. Calls involving mentally ill people in crisis appear to be frequent and are perceived by most of the officers to pose a significant problem for the department; however, most officers reported feeling well prepared to handle these calls. Generally, officers from the jurisdiction with a specialized team of officers rated their program as being highly effective in meeting the needs of mentally ill people in crisis, keeping mentally ill people out of jail, minimizing the amount of time officers spend on these calls, and maintaining community safety. Officers from departments relying on a mobile crisis unit (MCU) and on police‐based social workers both rated their programs as being moderately effective on each of these dimensions except for minimizing officer time on these calls where the MCU had significantly lower ratings. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Mental health courts and forensic assertive community treatment teams as correctional diversion programs

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Behavioral Sci & The Law

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Problem-solving courts (PSCs) developed as a means of mandating treatment and judicial supervision of certain types of court participants. PSCs have rapidly expanded in number and type over several decades. Mental health courts (MHCs) are a type of PSC that arose in response to the growing number of persons with mental illness within the criminal justice system. Their primary role is to divert individuals with mental illness from incarceration into psychiatric treatment and to reduce recidivism while improving psychosocial functioning of participants. Although different in history, philosophy, and program structure, forensic assertive community treatment (FACT) programs serve a similar goal of reducing recidivism and improving functioning in persons with mental illness who are involved with the criminal justice system. FACTs may be used as a standalone diversion option or be linked with a MHC as a form of intensive treatment and monitoring. Suggestions for future research and evaluation of these programs are offered.

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Chronic Mental Illness and the Criminal Justice System

Cited by 59 publications

References 11 publications

A review of arrests among psychiatric patients

A review of arrests among psychiatric patients

Police perspectives on responding to mentally ill people in crisis: perceptions of program effectiveness

Mental health courts and forensic assertive community treatment teams as correctional diversion programs

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