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Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research

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01-05-2014 | Original Article

Examining the Impact of Mental Illness and Substance Use on Time till Re-incarceration in a County Jail

Authors: Amy Blank Wilson, Jeffrey Draine, Stacey Barrenger, Trevor Hadley, Arthur Evans Jr.

Published in: Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research | Issue 3/2014

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.

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Title: Examining the Impact of Mental Illness and Substance Use on Time till Re-incarceration in a County Jail
Authors: Amy Blank Wilson
Jeffrey Draine
Stacey Barrenger
Trevor Hadley
Arthur Evans Jr.
Publication date: 01-05-2014
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research / Issue 3/2014
Print ISSN: 0894-587X
Electronic ISSN: 1573-3289
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-013-0467-7

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