The complicated relationship between defendants with mental health disorders and the criminal justice system The American criminal justice system is based on th

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Hundreds of thousands of the inmates who populate the nation's jails and prison systems today are identified as mentally ill. Many experts point to the deinstit

Written by a committee of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, People With Mental Illness in the Criminal Justice System: Answering a Cry for Help repre

Series of essays about issues surrounding treatment of the mentally ill with violent tendencies.