Background Based upon therapeutic justice principles, mental health courts use legal
leverage to improve access and compliance to treatment for defendants who are mentally ill …

Mental health court research has largely assessed program effectiveness using criminal
recidivism as an indicator of success. The present study expands this literature by exploring …

Research has found that participants in some mental health courts have lower rates of
recidivism than individuals with mental illnesses processed through the traditional criminal …

Objective: The goal of mental health courts (MHCs) is to decrease incarceration and
recidivism while increasing continuity of mental health treatment. Although previous …

Mental Health Courts (MHCs) have emerged across North America in an effort to address
the criminalization of persons with mental illness. Despite a growing body of literature …

The purpose of this research was to examine “who” was best served by a mental health
court (MHC) by identifying the characteristics of participants that were predictive of six-month …

Little is known about how mental health court (MHC) experiences (including satisfaction and
sanctioning, incentivizing, and life change events) differ by race and how this variation …

Objective: In response to the large-scale involvement of people with mental disorders in the
criminal justice system, many communities have created specialized mental health courts in …

How defendants are selected into mental health courts (MHC) is central to issues of fairness,
efficacy, and successful program replication. Only recently has empirical research started to …

Objective This study looked at, in addition to subsequent arrest, emergency medical services
(EMS) events as an outcome of participation in mental health court (MHC). Methods We …