Criminalization of persons who have serious mental illness is a subject of enormous complexity in terms of understanding how it came about, the problems that mentally ill persons face in our jails and prisons, and how to confront these problems. This course will review how to reverse criminalization and how to treat these persons in the community, either after release or, if possible, before they have been criminalized. This course is a comprehensive summary of these issues and how they impact the criminal justice system.
CRIM-660: De-Criminalization of Mental Illness
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