Question

The popular account of why people with serious mental illnesses (SMI) are overrepresented in jails and prisons is

usually structured as follows: put it in order

1deinstitutionalization, which refers to the shift from state psychiatric hospital to community care, has led to the criminalization of mental illness and attendant increases in incarceration rates

2Inadequate funding of community-based treatment for individuals in need of mental health services left people with SMI without the care they need

3People with SMI are dangerous to society.

4There is nothing that can be done to provide adequate care for people with SMI and therefore, they will inevitably end up in prison.

Answer 1