Arrested Adults Awaiting Arraignment: Mental Health, Substance Abuse, and Cirminal Justice Characteristics and Needs
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ARRAIGNMENT: MENTAL HEALTH,
SUBSTANCE ABUSE, AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
CHARACTERISTICS AND NEEDS
Nahama Broner, * Stacy S. Lamon, **
Damon W. Mayrl,*** and Martin G. Karopkin****
INTRODUCTION
The incarceration rate among the general population in the
United States is less than one percent,' yet the rate of incarceration
among the mentally ill population is higher.2 The involvement of
psychiatric clients with the criminal justice system has been de-
scribed in studies of family members, police intervention with the
mentally ill, civilly committed and general psychiatric inpatients,
and those in incarcerated settings. While the risk of violence in
this population is believed to be primarily, though not solely,
driven by substance use rather than mental illness,4 medication
* Ph.D., Senior Research Psychologist, Research Triangle Institute (RTI) Inter-
national, Adjunct Associate Professor, New York University.
** Ph.D., Adjunct Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
Psychology Department, New York University.
*** Research Analyst, Research Triangle Institute (RTI) International; Graduate
Student, Sociology, University of California, Berkley.
**** Judge, Criminal Court of the City of New York.
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3. See Nahama Broner et al., A Review of Screening Instruments for Co-Occur-
ring Mental Illness and Substance Use in Criminal Justice Programs, in SERVING MEN-
TALLY ILL OFFENDERS AND THEIR VICTIMS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR
MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS 289, 290 (Gerald Landsberg et al. eds., 2002) [here-
inafter SERVING MENTALLY ILL OFFENDERS]; see also E. Glenn Schellenberg et al., A
Review of Arrests Among Psychiatric Patients, 15 INT'L J.L. PSYCHIATRY 251, 252-62
(1992).
4. See John Monahan, Clinical and Actuarial Predictions of Violence, in 1 MOD-
ERN SCIENCE EVIDENCE: THE LAW AND SCIENCE OF EXPERT WITNESS TESTIMONY 58,
62 (David J. Faigman et al. eds., pocket pt. 2000); Henry J. Steadman et al., Violence](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/frdurb30&div=40&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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