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Criminal Offenders with Mental Retardation
Criminal Offenders with Mental Retardation

Criminal Offenders with Mental Retardation

Risk Assessment and the Continuum of Community-Based Treatment Programs

PSYCHOLOGY

126 Pages, 6 x 9

Trade Paper, $32.95 (US $32.95) (CA $36.95)

Publication Date: January 1999

ISBN 9781572560116

Rights: US & CA

NADD (Jan 1999)

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Overview

Individuals who present with the combination of developmental disabilities and a history of criminal offenses elicit a wide variety of responses from clinicians and administrators. These responses vary from overly punitive to dismissive. It is relatively easy to find examples of each extreme applied to the same type of offense in different areas. The purpose of this monograph is to present a systematic objective method of assessment that can facilitate the development of clinically appropriate individualised community treatment programs. The Appendix to this monograph contains an Annotated Bibliography of selected recently published articles on this subject.

Author Biography

Edwin J. Mikkelsen, MD, is an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, the medical director for The MENTOR Network and has served as a consultant for the Massachusetts Department of Mental Retardation. Wayne J. Stelk, PhD, is the vice president for quality management at the Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership. They both live in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

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