Entangled: How People With Serious Mental Illness Get Caught in Misdemeanor Systems - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1615375422 ISBN 13: 9781615375424

Casa editrice: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc, 2025

Riassunto

People with serious mental illness (SMI) are prominently and unjustly overrepresented in the criminal legal system. More than one-third—and in some studies more than two-thirds—of those with SMI have a lifetime history of arrest. For the first time, a single volume takes a deep dive into the common behaviors, contexts, and decisions that lead to misdemeanor arrests.

Contributors representing the fields of anthropology, social work, criminology, and psychiatry draw on data from a mixed-method, multisite study (Atlanta, Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia) to examine how people with SMI become entangled in the criminal legal system and how failure to resolve underlying issues—such as underfunded social and mental health service systems and the shortage of affordable housing—plays a role.

Divided into three distinct sections, Entangled: How People With Serious Mental Illness Get Caught in Misdemeanor Systems

• Provides a historical perspective on how social, mental health, and criminal legal system policies have imperiled individuals with SMI and demonstrates the contexts that shape decision-making across misdemeanor systems.• Looks at specific misdemeanor charges that have traditionally been common for people with SMI, including criminal trespass, shoplifting, obstruction and resisting arrest, and misdemeanor assault and battery, with insight into the factors behind such charges.• Reviews necessary reforms and policy advances in the criminal legal system and the mental health crisis response system and advocates for a multisystem approach that emphasizes racial equity.

In each chapter, data-based clinical vignettes illustrate scenarios in which people with SMI have been arrested on misdemeanor charges, heightening the clinical relevance of the information. Key points summarize the main takeaways in every chapter and help readers retain important concepts.

Offering a thorough and nuanced description of current challenges as well as a vision of a better future, Entangled encourages readers to be part of crafting solutions to help individuals with mental illness—especially serious mental illness—embrace a life of recovery, hope, empowerment, and integration.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Leah G. Pope, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Clinical Behavioral Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and a Research Scientist at New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York City.

Amy C. Watson, Ph.D., is a Professor in the School of Social Work at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Jennifer D. Wood, Ph.D., is a Professor of Criminal Justice and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Michael T. Compton, M.D., M.P.H., is a Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and a Research Psychiatrist at New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York City.

Dalla quarta di copertina

More than one-third—and in some studies more than two-thirds—of individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) have a lifetime history of arrest. For the first time, a single book examines the common behaviors, contexts, and decisions that lead to misdemeanor arrests.

Entangled: How People With Serious Mental Illness Get Caught in Misdemeanor Systems draws on data from a mixed-method, multisite study to analyze how people with SMI become involved with the criminal legal system. It offers a historical perspective on how shifts in social, mental health, and criminal legal system policies have contributed to current challenges. It also provides insight into the factors behind some of the charges most common among people with SMI, including criminal trespass, shoplifting, obstruction and resisting arrest, and misdemeanor assault.

Solution-oriented at its core, this book reviews necessary reforms and policy advances in the criminal legal system and the mental health crisis response system, advocating for a multisystem approach that will help individuals with mental illness embrace a life of recovery, hope, empowerment, and integration.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1615375422
• ISBN 13: 9781615375424
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 307
• Redattore: Pope Leah G. Ph.D., Watson Amy C. Ph.D., Wood Jennifer D. Ph.D., Compton Michael T. M.D.
• Contatto del produttore: American Psychiatric Association; https://www.appi.org/; ; 800 Maine Avenue SW, Suite 900; Washington; DC; 20024; U.S.A.
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile