ABSTRACT
Criminal justice involved persons with mental illness (CJ-PMI) are responsible for avoiding crime and managing their illness. Specifically, they must assume responsibility for achieving their long-term life goals. The principles of Changing Lives and Changing Outcomes (CLCO) are designed to facilitate increased responsibility for prosocial and productive behavior. Criminalness is defined as behavior that is antisocial, non-productive by avoiding responsibility, and violates the rights and well-being of others. For therapeutic purposes, criminalness is easily understood by a range of criminal justice involved individuals and is commonly accepted into their everyday vocabulary. The primary goal of CLCO is recovery. Recovery is distinguished from cure by the emphasis on the individual's responsibility to the recovery process. Developing new skills to change behavior works from the assumption that much change occurs through doing. The development of new skills involves the ability to perceive and understand social cues and signals and then translate this into observable social action.
