title: Examining the impact of mental illness and substance use on time till re-incarceration in a county jail.
abstract: This paper examines the role that substance use and serious mental illness play in criminal justice recidivism by examining the time to return to jail for a cohort of people admitted to jail in 2003 (N = 16,434). These analyses found that people with serious mental illness alone experienced the longest time in the community before returning to jail and were found to have a risk of re-incarceration that did not differ significantly from individuals with no psychiatric or substance use diagnoses. People with co-occurring disorders had a risk of re-incarceration that was over 40 % higher than that of individuals with no diagnosis.
authors: Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, 10,900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA, abw38@case.edu.
authors: Amy
authors: A
authors: Blank Wilson
authors: Jeffrey
authors: J
authors: Draine
authors: Stacey
authors: S
authors: Barrenger
authors: Trevor
authors: T
authors: Hadley
authors: Arthur
authors: A
authors: Evans
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003416:Criminal Law / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D017831:Diagnosis, Dual (Psychiatry); D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D010414:Pennsylvania; D011329:Prisoners / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011330:Prisons / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012008:Recurrence; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012306:Risk; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D013997:Time Factors