The number of inpatients in US public mental hospitals declined from 559,000 in 1955 to
approximately 110,000 at present. Reductions resulted from release or transfer of long-term …

Research Summary An analysis of a state panel of prison populations from 1977 to 2005
shows that the best predictors of prison populations are crime, sentencing policy, prison …

Deinstitutionalization has been ongoing since the 1950s and is a trend that has been
molded by diverse sociocultural conditions and competing ideologies. Key questions from …

In 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford reported that-based
on their clinical experiment-the beta-blocker drug, Propranolol, could reduce implicit racial …

Current trends, including active consideration of parity lack of specialty services in their
home communities may for mental health benefits and the increasing role of man-result in a …

The historical roots of deinstitutionalization of persons with severe mental illness is
discussed as well as the successes and failures of the movement. Negative societal …

The confluence of the deinstitutionalization of people with mental illness and the massive
incarceration of drug offenders has dramatically raised the number of substance abusers …

Prologue: The visibility of homeless mentally ill persons on the street corners of America
serves as a poignant sign that US mental health and housing policies are not meeting the …

Problem-solving courts provide judicially supervised treatment for behavioral health needs
commonly found among criminal offenders, including substance abuse and mental health …

Contemporary sociological research has expanded knowledge about how the label of
mental illness affects individuals and about how patients' and psychiatrists' social …