Mental health articles

Compared with defendants without disabilities,defendants with intellectual disabilities (IDs) aremore likely to have low-socioeconomic backgroundsand limited educations, as well as to be unemployed,male and young (Hayes 1996). Furthermore,compared with defendants without IDs,persons with IDs also seem to be incarcerated atgreater rates (Hodgins 1992; Holland et al. 2002).These defendants with IDs may also have cooccurring mental […]

Upon their referral to the mental health court, thecourt’s social workers completed an initial interviewwith each defendant to determine eligibility for thecourt. Information received during this interviewwas entered into an intake form. Upon determininga defendant’s eligibility, the social worker requestedrecords of the defendant from the public school,day and residential treatment facilities, hospitals and the criminal […]