Persons with severe mental illness in jails and prisons: a review.
One of the greatest problems of deinstitutionalization has been the very large number of persons with severe mental illness who have entered the criminal justice system instead of the mental health system.
Lamb
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Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
Weinberger
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D003688:Deinstitutionalization; D005260:Female; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011330:Prisons / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States