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Link between mental health and offending

• Comorbid substance and non-substance mental health disorders and re-offending among NSW prisoners
  Nadine Smith and Lily Trimboli, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research. 2010
• Mental health courts : a guide to research-informed police and practice
  Lauren Almquist and Elizabeth Dodd, Council of State Governments Justice Center. 2009
• People with mental illness
  Gary Cordner, US Department of Justice. 2006
• Measuring the burden of interpersonal violence victimisation in Western Australia 
  Lynn Meuleners, Delia Hendrie and Andy H Lee, 2008. See also CRC report A population based study examining the impact of interpersonal violence victimisation on mental health : report to the Criminology Research Council
• Sexual offenders with mental illness : special considerations for a special population
  Merrill Rotter, Psychiatric Times, 2007
• Effects of serious mental illness and substance abuse on criminal offenses
  John Junginger, Keith Claypoole, Ranilo Laygo and Annette Crisanti, Psychiatric services (journal), 2006
• The population impact of severe mental illness on violent crime
  Seena Fazel and Martin Grann, American journal of psychiatry, 2006
• Criminal offending in schizophrenia over a 25-year period marked by deinstitutionalization and increasing prevalence of comorbid substance use disorders
  Cameron Wallace,Paul Mullen and Philip Burgess, American journal of psychiatry, 2004
• Assessment of mental health issues with young offenders 
  Chris Lennings, 2003
• A collaborative approach to the delivery of mental health services to juvenile offenders 
  Sene Hicks and Cara McCormack, 2003
• Public health, mental health and violence against women : report produced for VicHealth
  Therese McCarthy, VicHealth, 2003
• Media reporting of specific mental illnesses in the context of crime: implications for mental health literacy
  Catherine Francis, Jane E Pirkis, R Warwick Blood, Philip M Burgess and David R Dunt, Medical journal of Australia 179(11/12), 2003
• Relationship between criminal behaviour and mental illness in young adults : conduct disorder, cruelty to animals and young adult serious violence
  Paul Wilson and Gareth Norris, Bond University, 2003
• Risk assessment by mental health professionals and the prevention of future violent behaviour
  Bernadette McSherry, 2003
• Homicide and mental illness (PDF 87kB)
  Mental Health Commission (New Zealand), 2002
• Mental illness and violent crime (Microsoft Word 333kB)
  Mental Health Commission (New Zealand), 2002

Recent publications

• Police interviews with vulnerable adult suspects
  13 July 2011
• Court-based mental health diversion programs
  03 June 2011
• Mental health, abuse, drug use and crime: does gender matter?
  11 November 2009
• Mental disorders and incarceration history
  28 January 2009
• Schizophrenia and offending: area of residence and the impact of social disorganisation and urbanicity
  04 November 2008
• The identification of mental disorders in the criminal justice system
  04 March 2007
• Mental health and drug dependency amongst police detainees
  19 July 2005
• Risk assessment by mental health professionals and the prevention of future violent behaviour
  04 July 2004
• Mental disorder and homicide in Australia
  04 November 1999
• Intellectual disability and criminal victimisation
  04 September 1996

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