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The Use of the Insanity Defense as a Jail Diversion Mechanism for Mentally Ill Persons Charged With Misdemeanors

Michele N. Schaefer and Joseph D. Bloom
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online March 2005, 33 (1) 79-84;
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