NCJ Number
179703
Editor(s)
Rodney Van Whitlock,
Bernard Lubin
Date Published
1999
Length
200 pages
Annotation
This is an annotated bibliography of writings on mental health services within correctional systems.
Abstract
The volume covers a period of 27 years, during which time psychological treatments in criminal justice settings have evolved substantially. Three working assumptions were prominent during those years: effective psychotherapy cured criminals; indeterminate sentences were desirable because they allowed treatment until readiness for release; and psychodynamically based therapies were the treatment of choice, which gave way to problem-focused, eclectic and cognitive-behavioral therapies as typical treatments of choice. The book demonstrates ways in which the three assumptions have been discarded in part and reshaped since 1971. The book contains 1,264 citations divided into 15 sections: (1) Mental Disorders; (2) Antisocial and Other Personality Disorders; (3) Assessment and Classification of Offenders; (4) Institution-Based Programs and Services; (5) Community-Based Programs and Services; (6) Local Justice System Issues; (7) Individual Psychotherapy; (8) Group, Marital and Family Therapy; (9) Jail and Prison Suicide; (10) Violence and Aggression; (11) Sex Offenders; (12) Adolescent Offenders; (13) Female Mentally Ill Offenders; (14) Professional and Ethical Issues; and (15) Education and Training. Indexes