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- Title
Statewide Survey of Living Arrangements for Conditionally Released Insanity Acquittees.
- Authors
Novosad, David; Follansbee, Juliet; Banfe, Shelley; Bloom, Joseph D.
- Abstract
There is a large population ( n =389) of insanity acquittees on monitored conditional release in Oregon. This article focuses on the living situation for these individuals, which can range from a secure residential treatment facility to independent living. This article will define all the different placement options available and then review the current living situation for all conditionally released insanity acquittees in the state of Oregon on a single day, February 1, 2014. This article shows that the majority of individuals on conditional release live in the most highly structured settings available. The article then ends with a discussion of these findings, including a comparison of current placement options, with previous descriptions in the literature demonstrating that current community options offer more structure and more individuals reside in structured settings than was previously the case. Current findings will be related to inpatient psychiatric bed reduction strategies and the question of possible transinstitutionalization. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PRISON release policy; DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION of prisoners; CRIMINALLY insane; ACQUITTALS; INSANITY (Law); INTERPRETATION &; construction of American law
- Publication
Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 2014, Vol 32, Issue 5, p659
- ISSN
0735-3936
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bsl.2139