RT Article
T1 Preventing crime in cooperation with the mental health care profession
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 64
IS 4/5
SP 263
OP 275
A1 Harte, Joke M.
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1853805165
AB Although major mental disorders do not have a central position in many criminological theories, there seems to be an evident relationship between these disorders and criminal behavior. In daily practice police officers and mental health care workers work jointly to prevent nuisance and crime and to keep the city livable. Examining the situations where the criminal justice system and mental health institutes are jointly involved to prevent crime, some pitfalls emerge that seem to threaten successful cooperation. There appear to be unrealistic expectations of the possibility to reduce the risk of reoffending by means of treatment and of the possibility to predict which offender poses a risk to society. Another complexity is the fact that both parties work from different backgrounds and pursue different goals. The way society and the criminal justice system deal with persons who are assumed to be a risk to the community because of a mental disorder demands a further investigation from a criminological perspective.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 273-275
K1 Criminal Justice
K1 Criminal Justice System
K1 Mental Health Care
K1 Personality Disorder
K1 Police Officer
DO 10.1007/s10611-015-9589-z