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Criminalization And Normalization: Some Thoughts About Offenders With Serious Mental Illness, Richard C. Boldt
Criminalization And Normalization: Some Thoughts About Offenders With Serious Mental Illness, Richard C. Boldt
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Response to Professor E. Lea Johnston, Reconceptualizing Criminal Justice Reform for Offenders with Serious Mental Illness
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While Professor Johnston is persuasive that clinical factors such as diagnosis and treatment history are not, in most cases, predictive by themselves of criminal behavior, her concession that those clinical factors are associated with a constellation of risks and needs that are predictive of criminal system involvement complicates her efforts to maintain a clear boundary between the criminalization theory and the normalization thesis. Indeed, Professor Johnston’s article contains a brief section in which she identifies “possible justifications” for the specialized programs that are …
Application Of The Insanity Defense To Postpartum Disorder-Driven Infanticide In The United States: A Look Toward The Enactment Of An Infanticide Act, April J. Walker
Application Of The Insanity Defense To Postpartum Disorder-Driven Infanticide In The United States: A Look Toward The Enactment Of An Infanticide Act, April J. Walker
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
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Bridging The Barriers: Public Health Strategies For Expanding Drug Treatment In Communities, Ellen M. Weber
Bridging The Barriers: Public Health Strategies For Expanding Drug Treatment In Communities, Ellen M. Weber
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States around the country have begun to adopt programs to divert drug offenders from jails and prisons to community-based drug treatment services. For this strategy to succeed, local officials will need to expand the availability of outpatient and residential treatment programs and address the barriers to siting treatment services, the most significant of which are community opposition and government zoning policies that facilitate community resistance. Civil rights laws, including the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Fair Housing Act (FHA), prohibit zoning discrimination against persons with histories of alcoholism and drug dependence and provide a solid legal foundation for …