New Resource Available: Women's Mental Health Issues Across the Criminal Justice System

The first of its kind, Women's Mental Health Issues Across the Criminal Justice System is dedicated to giving the most invisible offenders in today's criminal justice system - mentally ill adolescent girls and women - a face and a voice. The book is organized around the subsystems of the U.S. criminal justice system. Each section highlights mental health research and policy issues and focuses on the impediments to treatment and service delivery as well as the model programs, assessments, and intervention processes that offer hope within and across the system.

Covers both juvenile and adult female offenders and their unmet mental health needs.

• Discusses issues as they relate both to adults and adolescents.

Covers the entire criminal justice system - from arrest through re-entry, and includes policy recommendations.

• Provides a comprehensive look at the entire system and women's mental health issues throughout


• Builds on the government's emphasis on developing mental health and justice collaboration programs.

Offers perspectives from over 20 contributing authors, such as Rosemary Gido, Lannette Dalley, Mary Dodge, Nancy Wolff, Ros Muraskin and more

• Offers a balanced perspective and multiple topics and is organized around the subsystems of the U.S. criminal justice system (juvenile justice, law enforcement, mental health courts, jails, etc.)

Addresses co-occurring disorders, such as mental health and substance abuse.

• Addresses the psychology of female offenders, substance abuse and female offenders, policy issues in the criminal justice system, policy issues in the mental health system, etc.

To obtain a copy of Women's Mental Health Issues Across the Criminal Justice System, please click here.