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New Frontiers for Conditional Release: Applying Lessons Learned from Other Offenders with Mental Illness
Author(s) -
Gowensmith W. Neil,
Peters Amanda J.,
Lex Indira A.,
Heng Anika K.S.,
Robinson Kevin P.,
Huston Benjamin A.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
behavioral sciences and the law
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.649
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1099-0798
pISSN - 0735-3936
DOI - 10.1002/bsl.2217
Subject(s) - mental illness , insanity , assertive community treatment , psychiatry , mental health , psychology , extant taxon , population , medicine , environmental health , evolutionary biology , biology
There is relatively little research in the literature on insanity acquittees as compared with the large number of studies focused on the supervision and treatment of probationers and parolees with mental illness. Ideally, the latter literature could be successfully applied to insanity acquittees discharged from an inpatient hospital on “conditional release.” This article describes the challenges faced by persons on conditional release as well as the gaps in extant conditional release literature. Then, five evidence‐based models for the supervision and/or treatment of probationers and parolees with mental illness are applied to a theoretical conditionally released population (mental health courts, forensic assertive community treatment teams, the risk–need–responsivity model, informed supervision practices, and HOPE probation). Benefits and limitations are noted, and recommendations for such crossover are given. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.