The mentally disordered offender

Halleck, Seymour L.

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“…Those working with offenders, whether in mental health or criminal justice settings, clearly have to deliver services to two clients. As employees of agencies whose functions include public protection, they cannot avoid responsibilities for social control, and adoption of an individualist stance at all times would evade their moral obligation to use their skills to help protect society (Halleck, 1987). According priority to society, on the other hand, risks denial of individual welfare and uncritical acceptance of the goals of an imperfect justice system.…”

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“…The term ''mentally disordered offender'' traditionally designates legal recognition of a disorder of sufficient severity to warrant interventions beyond those of the usual criminal justice process, and not simply an offender suffering from psychiatric disorder (Halleck, 1987). Interventions include diversion to secure health care facilities, or treatment in special units in the prison system, but legal and administrative factors determine how mentally disordered offenders are defined and where services are provided.…”

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“…Rehabilitation may refer to social reintegration or simply to the prevention of further offending (Halleck, 1987;Blackburn, 1993). In the former sense of the rehabilitation ''ideal'', the goal is to enable the individual to avoid further crime by increasing personal effectiveness.…”

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“What works” with mentally disordered offenders

Blackburn

2004

Psychology, Crime & Law

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Treatment and rehabilitation of mentally disordered offenders has traditionally been a function of high security hospitals, but is increasingly based in community settings. Evidence for the effectiveness of psychological interventions remains scarce, and for secure hospitals, is limited to demonstrations of shortterm effects using a conventional range of behavioural and cognitive Á/behavioural procedures. Some findings support the use of directive community programmes in meeting the needs of public safety and improved reintegration of the individual. Long-term services are required, and more complex psychological contributions are needed to meet the multiple needs of this client group.

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“What works” with mentally disordered offenders

Blackburn

2004

Psychology, Crime & Law

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“…For example, Halleck (1 986) viewed the exclusion of alcoholism and personality disorders from research into mental disorders of prisoners, by Monahan and Steadman (1982), as being based on moral rather than scientific principles. Clinicians and researchers, according to Halleck (1986), who work in the criminal justice system blind themselves to obvious impairments of many criminals: 'because recognizing their disabilities would require society to drastically reconsider its response to their behavior' (p. 24).…”

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“…The behavioral science basis of determinism is rejected by criminal justice policies based upon a justice model (Ward & Webb, 1984). To support the policies of retribution and deterrence, the reliance on free-will is so essential that considerations of determined behaviors offered by the behavioral sciences are largely ignored (Halleck, 1986).…”

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Training in law and behavioral sciences: Issues from the criminal justice perspective

Wallace

1990

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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Interdisciplinary training in behavioral sciences and the law should be appropriate for a criminal justice education program. However, adopting such an interdisciplinary goal is problematic because the divisions in the types of educational curricula need to be confionted. The relationships of the criminal justice academic community with the profession, and of the behavioral sciences with present criminal justice policies, must also be addressed in the attempt to develop familiarity with behavioral sciences and their legal relevance in shaping the criminal justice system. These factors may hinder extensive implementation of such training. Suggestions are made for incorporating this training in a criminal justice curriculum.Criminal justice draws upon a variety of disciplines for its theoretical content. Practitioners with training in an individual discipline of the behavioral sciences or in the law have historically been employed in various roles (see, e.g., Ellison & Buckhout, 1981;Trotter, 1987; Ziegenfuss, 1985). Interdisciplinary training (in contrast to multidisciplinary exposure) in law and behavioral sciences should be an important aspect of criminal justice education because graduates of criminal justice programs become policy-makers and agency administrators in areas where such familiarity is pertinent.Wexler (1 990) has described a broad, professionally-relevant objective of law and behavioral sciences training that can be paraphrased for the criminal justice perspective: It is useful to develop familiarity with social science to understand its potential relevance in helping shape the criminal law and the criminal justice system. Monahan and Walker (1990) suggest four areas of training in the uses of social science in the legal process. These four areas could be similarly paraphrased to further delineate a criminal justice perspective for training in law and behavioral sciences. This interdisciplinary training should have as objectives the gaining of familiarity with: (1) the legal rules which make the involvement of behavioral sciences in criminal justice legally relevant; (2) the legal process of managing the involvement of behavioral sciences in criminal justice; (3) the relevant behavioral science research results; and (4) the techniques for carrying out and analyzing this research.However, the implementation of the professionally-relevant objectives of training The relationships of the criminal justice academic community with the profession, and of the behavioral sciences with present criminal justice policies, must be addressed in the attempt to develop an integrated knowledge of law and behavioral sciences. This article will examine these several factors for the possible incongruence of such interdisciplinary training and criminal justice. Observations will be presented concerning developments in criminal justice education and crime policy as they relate to promotion of this training. Because there are several uses of the behavioral sciences in law (Monahan & Walker, 1990), and because of its si...

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Supervision of patients subject to special restrictions

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Badger

1995

Working With the Mentally Disordered Offender in the Community

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The mentally disordered offender

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