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Unit 6 Assignment
April Bashford
COR 204 Community-Based Corrections
December 2, 2023
The mentally ill offenders need to be handled in a much different way than those
that are not mentally ill. They need to be assessed for any risk of violent behavior in the future.
They need to be assessed for the safety of the community and if they are at risk to commit
violence or harm to themselves as well. These assessments need to look at the nature of their
mental disorder and if there is anyway to alleviate it or to even help in getting rid of the disorder
in any degree.
Many of the prisons in the entire nation, do not have the efficiency to offer the better care
and treatment for the mentally ill offenders. Many of them are only able to offer programs that
are very limited, staffing is very understaffed, and the facilities are very insufficient. Many of
these kind of offenders, do not receive any of the treatment or care they definitely need or they
receive some just not enough to make any difference in their life.
Many of the court systems do not have the resources required to offer the help the
mentally ill need. There has been lots of research showing that the mentally ill offenders and the
reasons for recidivism were the same for non mentally ill offenders. It was more about the
criminal history that were the predictors of the mentally ill and not the clinical variables. These
mental health courts offer and provide a much better alternative to the offenders by offering to
emphasize a model to solve the problem and to connect the rehabilitative services that these type
of courts offer as a variety. When an offender has a untreated illness, they typically have a
criminogenic risk than those without the illness and the number is a higher number.
If these offenders do not receive the treatment they need, they are often prone to violence
or recidivism. Many of them often need interventions to help with employment and housing.
When they receive coordinated support services and are comprehensive, they are in a
intervention that helps with the criminogenic needs such as disorders of substance abuse, and
even thinking of antisocial status. The early detection and interventions is needed in greater
emphasis. Many of them often suffer from pose traumatic stress disorder, or even post-
incarceration syndrome. The mentally ill are still responsible in a civil manner for the actions no
matter what the status of their mental state is. The courts that maintain the mentally ill need to
argue or fight for these offenders to get treatment in the community better.
When these offenders get the help they need with the interventions, the early detection is
helpful and often leads to the prevention.
These courts need better training in response to these
offenders and to help in diverting effective strategies. There is currently a division between the
mental health system and the criminal justice system. If these two were bridged together, the care
for these individuals would be a much better program.
In my opinion, I think those offenders with mental illness that chronically re-offend
should be sent to mental health courts. They need the treatment and programs to help with their
metal state than be sent o court and sit in a cell. Them sitting in a cell like the non mentally ill
offenders is not the best choice. They need to have a better understanding as to what they did and
why it occurred. They need to get the help they deserve and need in order to be more successful
in life and in the community.
When they get the mental help they need, they tend to want to succeed better and they
feel better to themselves. They feel that they are getting the help and can better understand
themselves and the life they live. This also helps with the community understanding them better
and even their families. Many of these offenders don’t understand what they did when they
omitted the crime and they are not aware of what it can do to them in the future. Many of them
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are substance abuse users and those drugs hinder their lives even worse than other things they
endure throughout life.
Work Cited
OJP What is Community Corrections? The Evolution of Community Corrections
Shaffer, John S., Joe Russo, Dulani Woods, and Brian A. Jackson, Managing the Seriously
Mentally Ill in Corrections. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2019.
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2698.html.