Women's Mental Health Issues Across The Criminal Justice System

The first of its kind, Women’s Mental Health Issues Across the Criminal Justice System is dedicated to giving the “most invisible” offenders in today’s criminal justice system—mentally ill adolescent girls and women—a face and a voice. The book is organized around the subsystems of the U.S. criminal justice system. Each section highlights mental health research and policy issues and focuses on the impediments to treatment and service delivery as well as the model programs, assessments, and intervention processes that offer hope within and across the system.

Preface:  Ros Muraskin

 

INTRODUCTION:  The unmet mental health needs of female offenders across

                                    The criminal justice system

                                    Rosemary L. Gido

Juvenile Justice:

 

CHAPTER 1 – Meeting the mental health needs of female juvenile offenders:

                          Where are we now and where do we go from here?

                           Rebecca Boyd

 

CHAPTER 2 - Mental health screening as intake triage for juvenile girl offenders:

                           A MAYSI-2 comparison of non-detained and detained girls

                           Philip Stinson

 

CHAPTER 3 – “I’ve been around and around and around” – Measuring

                           traumatic events in the lives of incarcerated girls

                           Judith Ryder, Sandra Langley and Henry Brownstein

 

Law Enforcement:

 

CHAPTER 4 – The challenges of policing the mentally ill: An exploration

                           of gendered and ungendered perspectives

                           Mary Dodge and Terri Schreiber

 

CHAPTER 5 -  Improving police interactions with the mentally ill:

                           Crisis Intervention Training

                           Laura Ketteler and Mary Dodge

 

 Mental Health Courts:

 

CHAPTER 6 – Women in mental health court: A femicentric-integrated

                           approach of service delivery for women with multiple

                           disorders

                           Janice Joseph

Jails:

 

CHAPTER 7 -   Women in jail: Mental health care needs and service deficiencies

                            Phyllis Harrison-Ross and James E. Lawrence

 

CHAPTER 8 -  The contribution of childhood trauma to adult psychpathology

                           in dually diagnosed detainees: Implications for gender-based

                           jail and reentry trauma-informed services

                           Nahama Broner, Sarah Kopelovich, Damon W. Mayrl, and

                           David Bernstein

Prisons:

 

 

CHAPTER 9 -  Addressing the mental health needs of women offenders

                           Barbara Bloom and Stephanie Covington

 

CHAPTER 10 - Women destined to failure: Policy implications of the lack of

                          proper mental health and addiction treatment for female

                          offenders

                          Lanette P. Dalley and Vicki Michels

 

CHAPTER 11 - Prison-based programming for women with serious mental

                          Illness

                          Arthur J. Lurrigio and Andrew Harris

 

Re-entry:

 

CHAPTER 12 - Reentry needs of female mentally ill offenders

                          Stephanie Hartwell and Karin Orr

 

CHAPTER 13 - Rebuilding “person-first” reentry strategies for women leaving

                          prison from the perspectives of the end users: the returning women

                          Nancy Wolff

 

Policy;

 

CHAPTER 14 - Ethics, female offenders, and psychiatric illness: How the justice

                         and mental health system fail and abandon women

                         Kristie R. Blevins and Bruce A. Arrigo