Exam 11: Special Populations: Offenders With Mental Health Problems, Sex Offenders, and Women Offenders

The Community Mental Health Centers Act (CMHCA) of 1963 provided federal funding for community mental health centers as an alternative to institutionalization.

California became the first state to sanction either chemical or physical castration for certain sex offenders who were being released from prison into the community.

Deinstitutionalization embraces the idea that people with mental illnesses and mental retardation could best be treated in the community rather than in institutions.

The number of mentally ill persons entering the criminal justice system is______.

In 1773, Eastern Lunatic Asylum was constructed in Williamsburg, Virginia, as the first institution to house persons with mental illnesses.

Women entering community-based substance abuse treatment programs are less likely than men to be employed and are more likely to have experienced______abuse.

______ was the first antipsychotic medication to dramatically improving the prognosis of patients in psychiatric hospitals worldwide.

Evaluations of mental health courts have shown that most are ineffective in reducing recidivism.

Under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), Tier I Offenses require registration for______.

Anti-psychotic medication, commonly known as thorazine, was considered the single biggest advancement in psychiatric treatment in the 1950s.

Labeling Theory suggests that certain people are more likely than others to attain stigmatizing labels, such as deviant, criminal, or mentally ill, because these people are considered to be outsiders due to behavior or other kind of difference.

A gender-specific problem that incarcerated women face is separation from their children.

The______assumes a defendant is not guilty by reason of insanity if, at the time of the alleged criminal act, he or she did not know that what she was doing was wrong.

Women's incarceration rates have continued to rise since the 1980s.

The insanity defense is a legal defense based on claims of mental illness or mental incapacity.

______ is the process of replacing long-stay psychiatric hospitals with community mental health services for those diagnosed with mental disorders.

______ was sentenced to five years probation for sexting and required by Florida law to register as a sex offender.

______ is the act of sending sexually explicit messages or photographs, primarily between mobile phones.

The state of______has the highest number of registered sex offenders in the United States.

Mens rea refers to the state of mind of the offender at the time of the criminal offense.