Entangled: How People With Serious Mental Illnesses Get Caught in Misdemeanor Systems - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1615375422 ISBN 13: 9781615375424

Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

Contents: Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgments, Part I: Understanding Misdemeanor Systems, Contexts, and Decision-Making, Chapter 1. Introduction: The System, The Process, the Contexts: Misdemeanor Arrests among People with Serious Mental Illnesses, Chapter 2. Using System Maps to Understand Entanglement and Guide Change, Chapter 3. Decision-Making Contexts of Misdemeanor Charges, Chapter 4. Common Themes and Tensions: Misdemeanor System Perspectives on Managing Behaviors of People with Serious Mental Illnesses, Part II: Common Types of Misdemeanor Charges for People with Serious Mental Illnesses, Chapter 5. Being in the Wrong Place: Criminal Trespass and Criminal Legal Entanglement, Chapter 6. A $25 T-Shirt from the Bargain Store: Shoplifting and Criminal Legal System Entanglement, Chapter 7. Non-cooperation with Officers and Using “Fighting Words”: Obstruction and Related Misdemeanor Charges, Chapter 8. “That's scary because now they're showing violence”: Simple Assault Charges and Criminal Legal System Entanglement, Part III: Toward Reform and System Improvements, Chapter 9: The Current Era of Multifaceted Criminal Legal System Reform, Chapter 10. Reform in an Era of Mental Health and Crisis Services Innovation, Chapter 11. Equity in Mental Health and Criminal Legal Reform

About this title

About the Author

Leah G. Pope, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Clinical Behavioral Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and a Research Scientist at New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York City.

Amy C. Watson, Ph.D., is a Professor in the School of Social Work at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Jennifer D. Wood, Ph.D., is a Professor of Criminal Justice and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Michael T. Compton, M.D., M.P.H., is a Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and a Research Psychiatrist at New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York City.

From the Back Cover

More than one-third—and in some studies more than two-thirds—of individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) have a lifetime history of arrest. For the first time, a single book examines the common behaviors, contexts, and decisions that lead to misdemeanor arrests.

Entangled: How People With Serious Mental Illness Get Caught in Misdemeanor Systems draws on data from a mixed-method, multisite study to analyze how people with SMI become involved with the criminal legal system. It offers a historical perspective on how shifts in social, mental health, and criminal legal system policies have contributed to current challenges. It also provides insight into the factors behind some of the charges most common among people with SMI, including criminal trespass, shoplifting, obstruction and resisting arrest, and misdemeanor assault.

Solution-oriented at its core, this book reviews necessary reforms and policy advances in the criminal legal system and the mental health crisis response system, advocating for a multisystem approach that will help individuals with mental illness embrace a life of recovery, hope, empowerment, and integration.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1615375422
• ISBN 13: 9781615375424
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 334
• Editor: Pope Leah G., Watson Amy C., Wood Jennifer D., Compton Michael T.