"[This book explores] issues related to people with mental illness who are justice-involved. These include correlates of offending among people with mental illness; how criminal justice system actors respond, both desirable and otherwise, to people with mental illness; the media's role in shaping perceptions of people with mental illness who are justice-involved; and, finally, what can be done more effectively to reverse the process of criminalization of this group."-- Back cover.

Cultural factors and mental illness -- Criminogenic factors and mental illness -- Stigma and mental illness -- Sexual offending and mental illness -- Family violence and mental illness -- Discovering cit across the cjs -- Practicing in corrections -- Media coverage of people with mental illness -- Mental health courts: therapeutic jurisprudence for offenders with mental illness -- Psychiatric comorbidity and reentry -- Past and current perspectives on offenders with mental illness.