Mental Health and Criminal Justice: A Review of the Relationship Between Mental Disorders and Offending Behaviors and On the Management of Mentally Abnormal Offenders in the Health and Criminal Justice Services

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Author(s)

• Mullen, Paul E.

Source(s)

• Australian Institute of Criminology (Canberra, Australia)

Details

Published 2001. 79 pages.

Related Topics

• Co-occurring disorders (Offender Services)
• Co-occurring disorders (Special Offenders)
• Mental health (Offender Services)
• Mentally handicapped (Special Offenders)
• Mentally ill (Special Offenders)
• Pacific Ocean and Australia
• Violent behavior (Offender Management)

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