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NCJ 197103
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Title:
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Criminal Justice/Mental Health Consensus Project
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Corporate Author:
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Council of State Governments/Eastern Regional Conference
United States
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Date Published:
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06/2002 |
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Page Count:
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452 |
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Sponsoring Agency:
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Grant Number:
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2002-DD-BX-0002; 01-M008529-01-D |
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Publication Number:
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ISBN 0-87292-896-9 |
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Sale Source:
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Council of State Governments/Eastern Regional Conference
170 Broadway, 18th Floor
New York, NY 10038
United States |
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Document:
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PDF |
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Agency Summary:
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Agency Summary |
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Type:
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Legislation/policy descriptions |
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Language:
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English |
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Country:
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United States |
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Annotation:
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This is a report from the Criminal Justice/Mental Health
Consensus Project, which is a national, 2-year effort to prepare
recommendations that local, State, and Federal policymakers, as
well as criminal justice and mental health practitioners can use
to improve the criminal justice system's response to people with
mental illness. |
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Abstract:
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Following two meetings of a focus group composed of various
criminal justice and mental health stakeholders in 1999, project
partners established four advisory boards that collectively
included more than 100 leading State legislators, criminal
justice professionals from all components of the criminal justice
system, victim advocates, consumers, family members, and mental
health professionals who represented all aspects of community
mental health services. This report contains project policy
statements, recommendations for implementation, and program
examples. Underlying project policy statements is the perspective
that from a person's first involvement with the mental health
system to initial contact with law enforcement agents, to
pretrial procedures, adjudication, sentencing, incarceration, and
re-entry, there are numerous opportunities for agents of change
to focus their efforts on improving the response to people with
mental illness who come in contact with the criminal justice
system. Part One of this report contains policy statements that
explain the opportunities available to practitioners in the
criminal justice and mental health systems to identify a person
who has a mental illness and to respond in a way that both
recognizes the individual's needs and civil liberties while
promoting public safety and accountability. In addition, the
policy statements summarize elements of programs and policies
that would enable law enforcement, court officials, corrections
administrators, and mental health providers to ensure access to
effective treatment and services and to maintain the individual
on a path toward recovery. In Part Two of this report, policy
statements describe the overarching themes of the report. These
themes indicate that the implementation of each of the policy
statements in Part One of the report call for many of the same
components, i.e., collaboration, training, evaluations, and an
effective mental health system. A subject index and appended
glossary, program examples cited in the report, an explanation of
Federal Medicaid and disability program rules, project
history/methodology, a list of Steering Committee members, and a
172-item bibliography |
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Main Term(s):
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Criminology |
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Index Term(s):
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Mentally ill offenders ; Diagnostic and reception processing ; Mental health services ; Offender mental health services ; NIJ grant-related documents |
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Note:
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Dataset may be archived by the NIJ Data Resources Program at the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data |
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To cite this abstract, use the following link:
https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=197103
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