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Mentally Disordered Offenders Under Community Supervision

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Synonyms

Mental disorder; Mental illness; Parole; Probation

Overview

Offenders with serious mental illness (schizophrenia, bipolar, major depression) are overrepresented in criminal justice settings. Most offenders – both with and without mental illness – are not incarcerated but instead are supervised in the community on probation and parole. Offenders with serious mental illness are more likely to fail on community supervision than their relatively healthy counterparts. With a focus on community supervision in North America, this entry distills research on (1) explanations for why offenders with mental illness are at increased risk for supervision failure and (2) promising- and evidence-based practices for reducing this risk.

Statement of the Problem

Overrepresentation of Offenders with Mental Illness

Of the 7.2 million people under correctional supervision (Bureau of Justice Statistics 2011), nearly one-sixth have a serious mental illness (SMI; Fazel and Danesh 2002). Disorders...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. School of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati, 665 Dyer Hall, Clifton Ave, Cincinnati, OH, 45221, USA

    Sarah M. Manchak

  2. The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA

    Jennifer Eno Louden

  3. University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

    Jennifer L. Skeem

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  1. Sarah M. Manchak
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Correspondence to Sarah M. Manchak .

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  1. Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Gerben Bruinsma

  2. VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Gerben Bruinsma

  3. Department of Criminology, Law and Society, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

    David Weisburd

  4. Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel

    David Weisburd

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Manchak, S.M., Louden, J.E., Skeem, J.L. (2014). Mentally Disordered Offenders Under Community Supervision. In: Bruinsma, G., Weisburd, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_33

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