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Based upon therapeutic justice principles, mental health courts use legal leverage to improve access and compliance to treatment for defendants who are mentally ill. Justice-involved women have a higher prevalence of mental illness than men, and it plays a greater role in their criminal behavior. ...
(1) Mental Illness. When a defendant is found not guilty by reason of mental illness, and … the defendant is not under commitment, the court must commence a civil commitment proceeding and order the defendant to be detained in a state hospital or other facility pending completion of the pro...
For the purposes of this study, the term mental illness refers to either: (1) a mental illness, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, generalized anxiety disorder and/or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), that has been diagnosed by a medical or mental health provider; (2)...
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A woman in her 30s accused of posting malicious comments about singer and actress IU has pleaded for leniency, claiming she suffers from a mental illness that affects her writing abilities. According to reports on November 26th KST, the Seoul Central District Court recently held a sentencing heari...
Quintiles Chair in Pharmaceutical Development and Regulatory Innovation, and a professor at the Schaeffer Center at USC. "At the same time, the American public is increasingly worried about untreated mental illness triggering violent behavior in the community. Our study suggests state Medicaid policies ...
It is often reported by women in prison that experiences of trauma and mental illness precede substance-use, with women reportedly using substances to alleviate distress associated with trauma and to manage mental health issues [13, 14, 19]. Mental health and substance-use are therefore ...
Mad and Bad: HIV infection, mental illness, intellectual disability, and the law In this paper, we discuss the way public health law was invoked in the case of Christopher Truscott, who together with another man, Richard Burley, was con... A Macdonald,H Worth - 《Sexuality Research & Soc...
Yet rarely are students taught about mental illness, how to represent mentally ill clients, adjudicative competence, the mental health needs of various offender groups and how these unmet needs may contribute to criminal behavior, or the use of mental health mitigation evidence at sentencing. If ...