Draine Jeffrey, Wolff Nancy, Jacoby Joseph E, Hartwell Stephanie, Duclos Christine
University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA.
Behav Sci Law. 2005;23(5):689-707. doi: 10.1002/bsl.642.
Criminal justice, mental health, and social service professionals face a myriad of role expectations in working with prisoners with mental illness to facilitate community re-entry. These expectations include those related to law enforcement, social welfare, and administrative efficiency. The challenge for front line workers and the multiple systems that employ them is to integrate all these expectations effectively on behalf of the individual as well as the community. Current models of re-entry for individuals leaving prison with mental illness focus on the management and interaction of service systems. This paper presents a model of prisoner re-entry that incorporates a larger social context, illustrating dynamics related to both individuals with mental illness leaving prison and their interaction with the community setting. This model was generated through an interdisciplinary team effort. It was refined through a focus group process that included advocates, community members and other informants from mental health and criminal justice systems in five states. The model is designed to generate new questions for research that address both individual and community level issues.
刑事司法、心理健康和社会服务专业人员在与患有精神疾病的囚犯合作以促进其重新融入社区时面临着无数的角色期望。这些期望包括与执法、社会福利和行政效率相关的期望。一线工作人员以及雇用他们的多个系统所面临的挑战是，为了个人和社区的利益有效地整合所有这些期望。目前针对患有精神疾病的出狱人员的重新融入模式侧重于服务系统的管理和互动。本文提出了一个将更大的社会背景纳入其中的囚犯重新融入模式，阐述了与患有精神疾病的出狱人员及其与社区环境的互动相关的动态情况。这个模式是通过跨学科团队的努力产生的。它通过一个焦点小组过程得到完善，该过程包括来自五个州的倡导者、社区成员以及心理健康和刑事司法系统的其他信息提供者。该模式旨在为研究提出新的问题，这些问题涉及个人和社区层面的问题。
