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This chapter reviews the law’s role as society’s agent for controlling the deviant behavior of persons with mental illness and empirical research examining that role and its effects. In considering the civil law, it describes changes in use of involuntary hospitalization but focuses on use of outpatient commitment and other forms of leveraged treatment to control the deviance of persons with severe mental illness who live in the community and no longer stay in hospitals for extended periods. This chapter critically examines studies on police encounters; prevalence and types of arrest; and forces leading to arrest, incarceration, and diversion out of the criminal justice system. It also describes and evaluates treatment under criminal justice, diversion, and a particular diversion program, mental health courts. It concludes with questions for future research, a categorization of mentally ill offenders, and an admonition to remember that most persons with severe mental illness do not offend. |
