Includes bibliographical references and index.

The mental health needs of female offenders across the criminal justice system / Roslyn Muraskin, Rosemary L. Gideo -- Meeting the mental health needs of female juvenile offenders : where are we now, and where do we go from here? / Rebecca J. Boyd -- Mental health screening as intake triage for juvenile girl offenders : a MAYSI-2 comparison of nondetained and detained youth / Philip Matthew Stinson, Sr. -- "I've been around and around and around" : measuring traumatic events in the lives of incarcerated girls / Judith A. Ryder, Sandra Langley, Henry Brownstein -- The challenges of policing the mentally ill : an exploration of gendered and ungendered perspectives / Mary Dodge,Terri Schreiber -- Improving police interactions with the mentally ill : crisis intervention team (CIT) training / Laura Ketteler, Mary Dodge -- Women in mental health courts : a femicentric-integrated approach of service delivery for women with multiple disorders in mental health courts / Janice Joseph.

Women in jail : mental health care needs and service deficiencies / Phyllis Harrison Ross, James E. Lawrence -- The contribution of childhood trauma to adult psychopathology in dually diagnosed detainees : implications for gender-based jail and reentry on trauma-informed services / Nahama Broner . . . [et al.] -- Addressing the mental health needs of women offenders / Barbara E. Bloom, Stephanie Covington -- Women destined to failure : policy implications of the lack of proper mental health and addiction treatment for female offenders / Lanette P. Dalley, Vicki Michels -- Prison-based programming for women with serious mental illness / Andrew Harris, Arthur J. Lurigio -- Reentry needs of female mentally ill offenders / Stephanie Hartwell, Karin Orr -- Building "person-first" reentry strategies for women leaving prison from the perspectives of the end users : the returning women / Nancy Wolff -- Ethics, female offenders, and psychiatric illness : how the justice and mental health systems fail and abandon women / Kristie R. Blevins, Bruce A. Arrigo.