Concept information
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social problems encyc
crime and deviance
community corrections
theory and treatment in the community
Preferred term
offenders with mental illness
Definition
- Prisoners with mental illness have long been a strain on the criminal justice system. Early American settlers generally treated mentally ill offenders the same as other offenders and subjected them to the same punishments. [Source: Encyclopedia of Community Corrections; Offenders with Mental Illness]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/offenders_with_mental_illness
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