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Explainer: How does mental illness affect sentencing?

(6 days ago) WEBAround Australia, the sentencing principles in this area are known as the Verdins principles. These principles state that a mental impairment may affect a sentence in six ways: 1. It may reduce an

https://theconversation.com/explainer-how-does-mental-illness-affect-sentencing-101724

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Fact Sheet: Incarceration and Mental Health - Cornell …

(3 days ago) WEB2005: 743 per 100,000. 2009: 749 per 100,000 42. In 2011, approximately 2,300,000 individuals were incarcerated in the United State, a higher incarceration than …

https://psychiatry.weill.cornell.edu/research-institutes/dewitt-wallace-institute-psychiatry/issues-mental-health-policy/fact-sheet-0

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Mass Probation: Effects of Sentencing Severity on Mental …

(4 days ago) WEBTime spent in incarceration is associated with worsening of individuals’ mental health. 1 The stressful environment of prisons and jails, individuals’ lack of …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10683971/

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The impact of imprisonment on individuals’ mental health …

(5 days ago) WEBIn many contexts worldwide, penal sanctions aim to reintegrate individuals into society, and prison sentences are one such sanction. However, research has found …

https://bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40359-023-01252-w

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People With Mental Illness in the Criminal Justice System: …

(2 days ago) WEBThe overall message of the book is that effective partnerships among treating psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, law enforcement, judges, and our patients and their families can have an …

https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ajp.2016.16060631

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Sentencing offenders with mental disorders, …

(9 days ago) WEBGaps in evidence for sentencers and psychiatrists. In, effectively, raising such questions, however, The Guideline forces us to consider the dearth of relevant clinical research into …

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/sentencing-offenders-with-mental-disorders-developmental-disorders-or-neurological-impairments-what-does-the-new-sentencing-council-guideline-mean-for-psychiatrists/76AE4B4FB4BCC8D7B16843307EF59142

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Research Roundup: Incarceration can cause lasting …

(5 days ago) WEBBy its very nature, incarceration separates people from their social networks and loved ones. In 2018, when researchers at the University of Georgia analyzed the …

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2021/05/13/mentalhealthimpacts/

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Mental Illness as a Sentencing Determinant: A …

(2 days ago) WEBThis study identifies factors that contribute to sentencing outcomes for criminally sentenced individuals experiencing mental disorders, in two U.S. states with …

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00938548231170801

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Mental Health Risk Factors and Parole Decisions: Does …

(3 days ago) WEB1. Introduction. The mentally ill are among society’s most marginalized [1,2,3].Corrigan and Watson [] (2002) argue that many individuals with serious mental …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6720969/

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The effects of the justice system on mental health - PMC

(3 days ago) WEBThe conclusion is clear: the police and justice system, indirectly and in a ‘low-level’ form, assault both aggressors and the victims of abuse. On the other hand, the …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8009114/

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Mental Health Courts and Sentencing Disparities - University …

(7 days ago) WEBing practices between mental health and traditional criminal courts.11 This Article is the first to fill that void. In an absence of empirical scrutiny, competing narratives have arisen …

https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1824&context=facultypub

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Mental Health as Mitigation Evidence Journal of the American …

(4 days ago) WEBMental Health as Mitigation Evidence. In Allen v. Stephan, 42 F.4 th 223 (4th Cir. 2022), the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled a sentencing judge in a capital …

https://jaapl.org/content/51/3/444

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PTSD and Trauma as Mitigating Factors in Sentencing in Capital …

(8 days ago) WEBPosttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is commonly used as a mitigating sentencing factor, although how successfully it is used varies. In cases involving the …

https://jaapl.org/content/early/2021/11/17/JAAPL.210052-21

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Mass Probation: Effects of Sentencing Severity on Mental Health …

(1 days ago) WEBAbstract. Background: Incarceration is associated with negative impacts on mental health. Probation, a form of community supervision, has been lauded as an …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38032802/

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Forensic mental health expert testimony and judicial

(7 days ago) WEBThe legal context facilitates multiple potential effects of forensic mental health expertise on different judicial decisions in a criminal trial (see Table 1). Despite the …

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359178919302745

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Mental Health Prison Policy Initiative

(2 days ago) WEBIn state prisons: 74% +. Percent of police shootings in 2015 that involved a mental health crisis: 27% +. Portion of people jailed 3+ times within a year who report having a …

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/research/mental_health/

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The effects of psychiatric and “biological” labels on lay sentencing

(9 days ago) WEBObjectives This research, using focal concerns perspective on sentencing, examines how and why psychiatric labels, and having diagnoses biologically “labeled,” …

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11292-018-9322-x

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Mass Probation: Effects of Sentencing Severity on Mental Hea

(9 days ago) WEBIncarceration is associated with negative impacts on mental health. Probation, a form of community supervision, has been lauded as an alternative. …

https://journals.lww.com/epidem/fulltext/2024/01000/mass_probation__effects_of_sentencing_severity_on.10.aspx

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The Mental Health Effects of Being in Prison - Verywell Mind

(7 days ago) WEBUntreated psychiatric conditions among the prison population even takes a toll on society financially, in the form of taxpayers' money. Untreated psychiatric …

https://www.verywellmind.com/menta-health-effects-of-prison-5071300

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CRIMINAL JUSTICE STANDARDS ON MENTAL HEALTH

(9 days ago) WEBStandard 7-1.3. Roles of mental health professionals in the criminal justice process (a) Mental health professionals serve the administration of criminal justice by: (i) Evaluating …

https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/criminal_justice_standards/mental_health_standards_2016.authcheckdam.pdf

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Sentencing offenders with mental disorders, developmental …

(4 days ago) WEBIn accordance with s.120 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (CJA 2009), the Sentencing Council issues this definitive guideline. It applies only to offenders aged 18 and older, …

https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/overarching-guides/magistrates-court/item/sentencing-offenders-with-mental-disorders-developmental-disorders-or-neurological-impairments/

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