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Linda E. Weinberger
Researcher at University of Southern California
Publications - 58
Citations - 2755
Linda E. Weinberger is an academic researcher from University of Southern California. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 56 publications receiving 2652 citations. Previous affiliations of Linda E. Weinberger include University of California, Los Angeles.
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Persons with severe mental illness in jails and prisons: a review.
TL;DR: 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.
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The police and mental health.
TL;DR: The authors describe a variety of mobile crisis teams composed of police, mental health professionals, or both and the need for police officers to have training in recognizing mental illness and knowing how to access mental health resources is emphasized.
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The shift of psychiatric inpatient care from hospitals to jails and prisons.
TL;DR: A central theme of this article is that when a mentally ill individual is arrested, that person now has a computerized criminal record, which is easily accessed by the police and the courts in subsequent encounters.
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Mentally Ill Persons in the Criminal Justice System: Some Perspectives
TL;DR: Recommendations to reduce criminalization by increased coordination between police and mental health professionals, to increase mental health training for police officers, to enhance mental health services after arrest, and to develop more and better community treatment of mentally ill offenders are offered.
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Community treatment of severely mentally ill offenders under the jurisdiction of the criminal justice system: a review.
TL;DR: It is critical to identify a treatment philosophy that strikes a balance between individual rights and public safety and includes clear treatment goals that includes a close liaison between treatment staff and the criminal justice system.