Mental Health & Crime

Catalog description

Mental Health & Crime: This course will provide students with a comprehensive overview of the issues and challenges located at the intersection of mental health/illness and the criminal justice system. Attention will be focused on a range of issues, including, but not limited to, the definition of mental illness, deinstitutionalization and the criminalization of the mentally ill, the impact of mental illness on criminal proceedings, treatment/intervention effectiveness, and the reentry/reintegration of mentally ill individuals.