Cisneros, H.G. (1996). Searching for Home: Mentally Ill Homeless People in America. Cityscape, 155-172.
This is a 17 page periodical that discusses a few statistics about homeless people as well as how mental illness affects those people. It provides a short look into the mental health of homeless people, and the crimes that these people often commit. In addition, it delves into the ages of homeless people and what causes people to become homeless. This periodical is an older study, but I still believe that it provides useful information about homeless people and their mental health.
Cisneros spends a few pages going over solutions that would help homeless people who have severe mental illnesses. The article discusses a form of treatment, …show more content…
Criminal Behaviour And Mental Health, 19(5), 291-297.
This journal is based upon the fact that homeless people have an increased risk for criminal behavior and mental illnesses. The goals were to determine and examine risk factors that are affecting arrest rates among homeless people who have mental illnesses as well as substance problems. The arrest information was based upon these arrests: drug related, property related, and violation of court related.
Information regarding mental health history as well as alcohol or drug addiction was collected from a facility in Florida, but people with violent or sexual offenders were not allowed into the facility, so they were not part of the study. Arrest records were collected from criminal justice databases. The study discovered that since homeless people have problems finding health care treatment, it is possible that they get re-arrested in order to obtain medical treatment; this information alone is extremely helpful in relation to crime rates and specific crimes that may been committed by homeless people.
Copeland, L.A., Miller, A.L., Welsh, D.E., McCarthy, J.F., Zeber, J.E., & Kilbourne,
This is a 17 page periodical that discusses a few statistics about homeless people as well as how mental illness affects those people. It provides a short look into the mental health of homeless people, and the crimes that these people often commit. In addition, it delves into the ages of homeless people and what causes people to become homeless. This periodical is an older study, but I still believe that it provides useful information about homeless people and their mental health.
Cisneros spends a few pages going over solutions that would help homeless people who have severe mental illnesses. The article discusses a form of treatment, …show more content…
Criminal Behaviour And Mental Health, 19(5), 291-297.
This journal is based upon the fact that homeless people have an increased risk for criminal behavior and mental illnesses. The goals were to determine and examine risk factors that are affecting arrest rates among homeless people who have mental illnesses as well as substance problems. The arrest information was based upon these arrests: drug related, property related, and violation of court related.
Information regarding mental health history as well as alcohol or drug addiction was collected from a facility in Florida, but people with violent or sexual offenders were not allowed into the facility, so they were not part of the study. Arrest records were collected from criminal justice databases. The study discovered that since homeless people have problems finding health care treatment, it is possible that they get re-arrested in order to obtain medical treatment; this information alone is extremely helpful in relation to crime rates and specific crimes that may been committed by homeless people.
Copeland, L.A., Miller, A.L., Welsh, D.E., McCarthy, J.F., Zeber, J.E., & Kilbourne,