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Beyond Punishment: Helping Individuals with Mental Illness in Maryland's Criminal Justice System
Beyond Punishment: Helping Individuals with Mental Illness in Maryland's Criminal Justice System
Publication year:
2008
| Cataloged on:
Mar. 19, 2009
ANNOTATION: “This book is a non-technical resource intended to help you understand basic processes and systems to enable you to be a better advocate for an individual with mental illness involved with the criminal justice system” (p. 4). Sections following an introduction include: mental health crisis prevention and preparation; when the mental health crisis occurs; when individuals with mental illness interact with the criminal justice system -- interacting with police, booking and pretrial detention, locating an individual after arrest, jail, bail, arraignment and preliminary hearings, the courts, pretrial release, the attorneys, pretrial options, competency versus criminal responsibility, trial, sentencing, post conviction, other useful information (i.e., fees and fines, arrest and conviction records, restraining, peace, or protective orders, and warrants); and glossary.
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