Investigating the Distance to Crime for Offenders With Mental Illness: How Routine Is Routine?

Research consistently demonstrates that offenders do not travel far to crime. Although this finding has been observed across different types of offending and offenders, one group rarely examined within this paradigm is offenders with mental illness (OWMI). We calculated the distance to crime for a group of offenders with a documented mental illness and compared that distance to those in other publications for other samples. We found that our sample of OWMI traveled about the same and in some cases shorter distances to crime than other offenders. Although this study has limitations, we believe it nevertheless lends support to the environmental criminology paradigm and provides important policy implications, as well as questions for further research.

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Cybercrime and Place

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190279707.013.39 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Fernando Miró Llinares ◽

Shane D. Johnson

Keyword(s):

Policy Implications ◽

Environmental Criminology ◽

The Internet ◽

Time And Space ◽

Criminal Opportunities ◽

Different Types ◽

Physical Spaces

This chapter discusses how environmental criminology can be applied to cybercrime. It first discusses the concept of cybercrime and how there are different types of offending and opportunities. It then considers the architecture of cyberspace and how it differs from physical spaces. In particular, thought is given to how concepts of time and space differ across the two environments, and why it is necessary to rethink or adapt models of environmental criminology to understand crimes in cyberspace. Section 38.4 looks at some of the criminal opportunities afforded by the configuration of the Internet and how it is used. Finally, conclusions are drawn and (some) policy implications that follow from an environmental criminology approach to cybercrime are discussed.

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Criminal Justice Interventions for Offenders With Mental Illness: Evaluation of Mental Health Courts in Bronx and Brooklyn, New York

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e526732013-001 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Shelli B. Rossman ◽

Janeen Buck Willison ◽

Kamala Mallik-Kane ◽

KiDeuk Kim ◽

Sara Debus-Sherrill ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

New York ◽

Mental Illness ◽

Criminal Justice ◽

Mental Health Courts ◽

Offenders With Mental Illness

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Stopping the revolving door for offenders with mental illness

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e560382009-003 ◽

2009 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Mental Illness ◽

Revolving Door ◽

Offenders With Mental Illness

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Criminal Thinking of Offenders With Mental Illness

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e634872009-001 ◽

2009 ◽

Author(s):

Robert D. Morgan ◽

Naihua Duan ◽

William Fisher ◽

Christopher Romani ◽

Jon Mandracchia ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Mental Illness ◽

Criminal Thinking ◽

Offenders With Mental Illness

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Effectiveness of treatment for offenders with mental illness

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e643092010-001 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Catherine C. Serna-McDonald ◽

Robert D. Morgan

Keyword(s):

Mental Illness ◽

Offenders With Mental Illness

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Decision letter for "Placement of chronically homeless into different types of permanent supportive housing before and after a coordinated entry system: The influence of severe mental illness, substance use disorder, and dual diagnosis on housing configuration and intensity o"

10.1002/jcop.22428/v2/decision1 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Mental Illness ◽

Substance Use ◽

Severe Mental Illness ◽

Substance Use Disorder ◽

Dual Diagnosis ◽

Supportive Housing ◽

Permanent Supportive Housing ◽

Different Types ◽

Before And After

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‘I didn't like just sittin’ around all day’: Facilitating Social and Community Participation Among People with Mental Illness and High Levels of Psychiatric Disability

Journal of Social Policy ◽

10.1017/s0047279410000073 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 375-391 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

KRISTY MUIR ◽

KAREN R FISHER ◽

DAVID ABELLO ◽

ANN DADICH

Keyword(s):

Mental Illness ◽

Community Participation ◽

Psychiatric Disability ◽

Supported Housing ◽

Policy Implications ◽

South Wales ◽

People With Mental Illness ◽

Limited Effectiveness ◽

Living Skills ◽

Support Programmes

AbstractPeople with mental illness can be profoundly disabled and at risk of social exclusion. Transitional models of supported housing have limited effectiveness in improving community participation. Stable, individualised psychosocial housing support programmes have been found to assist in improving mental health and decreasing hospitalisations, but little is understood about whether or how these programmes facilitate social and community participation. This article argues that, if certain supports are available, supported housing models can assist people with high levels of psychiatric disability to participate meaningfully in the community. To make this case, the article uses findings of a longitudinal evaluation of a supported housing model in Australia: the Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative Stage One (HASI). HASI is a partnership between the New South Wales Government Departments of Health and Housing and non-government organisations. It is a coordinated approach that provides clients with housing and community-based clinical support, as well as support with daily living skills and community participation. An analysis of questionnaire, database, interview and clinical data is used to demonstrate how HASI contributes to increased social and community participation. The article concludes with policy implications for supported housing models that aim to facilitate meaningful community participation for people with mental illness.

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