Highlights Can programs help those in the community who are threatening violence or mass shootings? Can programs assist adjudicated violent offenders with mental health problems?…
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Highlights People want to know how mentally ill offenders obtain firearms or why firearms were not confiscated. 5.7 percent out of 25 million potential firearm…
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Highlights Ever wonder why violence is increasing? Are there reasons why arrests are plummeting, correctional populations are at record lows and thousands of cops are…
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Highlights In Oregon, only 1 percent of people who received citations for possessing hard drugs asked for treatment. Half showed up for court. State health…
View More Decriminalization-One Percent Of Drug Users Ask For Treatment-Overdose Deaths SoarHighlights Data suggests that many police shootings involve people in mental health distress. Per separate data, most offenders are under the influence at the time…
View More Many Police Shootings Involve People In Mental Health DistressHighlights Social workers are so backlogged that it can take a week or more to respond to urgent 911 calls. Police reform may have support…
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Highlights Most offenders are drug and alcohol dependant. Eighty percent of state inmates have considerable drug histories. Add mental health concerns, and we come to…
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Highlights The vast majority of our discussions about crime, mass shootings, police encounters that go wrong, treatment failures and recidivism may be explained by the…
View More Mental Illness, Mass Shootings And Everyday CrimeObservations Does policing change the personalities of officers? Most would suggest that it does. “Being a cop in a isn’t for sane people. Being a…
View More Does Policing Change The Personalities Of Officers?Observations You can partially explain dysfunctional criminal behavior by looking at the data on traumatic brain injuries, mental health, PTSD and substance abuse. Author Leonard…
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Observations I’m suggesting that we focus almost exclusively on mental health and the co-occurring issue of substance abuse. With budget limitations, we can’t be…
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Summary More than half of prison and jail inmates meet criteria for drug dependence. Most offenders are drug and alcohol addicts in need of…
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Subtitle Most offenders have mental health issues. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Thirty-five years of speaking for national and state criminal justice agencies. Former Senior…
View More Mental Health Issues Drive CrimePrisoners Report Significant Mental and Physical Problems Editor’s note: Anyone working with people caught up in the criminal justice system are astounded by the number…
View More Prisoners Report Significant Mental and Physical ProblemsCrime in America.Net Our prayers go to Representative Giffords and all those killed or wounded in the tragic event in Tucson. We have reader questions regarding the…
View More Nearly 1 in 5 violent offenders in prison or jail or on probation were identified as mentally ill.Gentlereaders: The research continues the generally positive results from speciality courts focusing on an array of criminal justice issues like drugs, probation violations, prisoner reentry…
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