Community-based alternatives for justice-involved individuals with severe mental illness: Review of the relevant research

K Heilbrun, D DeMatteo, K Yasuhara… - Criminal justice and …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Community-based alternatives to conviction and imprisonment for adult offenders with
severe mental illness are receiving increasing attention from researchers and policy makers …

Pathways from traumatic child victimization to delinquency: Implications for juvenile and permanency court proceedings and decisions

JD Ford, J Chapman, JM Mack… - Juvenile and Family …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Research studies and observations by mental health and judicial professionals suggest that
childhood traumatic victimization may contribute to the development of juvenile delinquency …

Treatment pressures, leverage, coercion, and compulsion in mental health care

G Szmukler, PS Appelbaum - Journal of Mental Health, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Questions concerning non-consensual treatment in mental health services
have assumed an increased salience. In significant part, this has been due to changes in …

Effect of mental health courts on arrests and jail days: A multisite study

HJ Steadman, A Redlich, L Callahan… - Archives of general …, 2011 - jamanetwork.com
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Mental health court outcomes: A comparison of re-arrest and re-arrest severity between mental health court and traditional court participants

ME Moore, VA Hiday - Law and human behavior, 2006 - Springer
Mental health courts have been proliferating across the country since their establishment in
the late 1990's. Although numerous advocates have proclaimed their merit, only few …

Beyond criminalization: Toward a criminologically informed framework for mental health policy and services research

WH Fisher, E Silver, N Wolff - Administration and Policy in Mental Health …, 2006 - Springer
The problems posed by persons with mental illness involved with the criminal justice system
are vexing ones that have received attention at the local, state and national levels. The …

Decarceration courts: Possibilities and perils of a shifting criminal law

AM McLeod - Geo. LJ, 2011 - HeinOnline
Significant change is afoot in US criminal law. There remain roughly seven million people
incarcerated, on probation, or on parole in the United States'-a quantum of criminal law …

Effectiveness of mental health courts in reducing recidivism: A meta-analysis

EM Lowder, CB Rade, SL Desmarais - Psychiatric services, 2018 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Mental health courts (MHCs) were developed to address the overrepresentation
of adults with mental illnesses in the US criminal justice system through diversion into …

Procedural justice and the mental health court judge's role in reducing recidivism

HW Wales, VA Hiday, B Ray - International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 2010 - Elsevier
Based on qualitative observation and quantitative data from eight mental health courts
(MHCs), this article argues that observed reductions in recidivism from participation in MHC …

Do jurors “know” what isn't so about child witnesses?

JA Quas, WC Thompson, K Alison, C Stewart - Law and Human Behavior, 2005 - Springer
Are expert witnesses needed in child sexual abuse cases to educate jurors about children's
memory, suggestibility, and reactions to abuse, or do jurors already know what such experts …