Admission into mental health courts is based on a complicated and often variable decision-
making process that involves multiple parties representing different expertise and interests …

Specialized courts raise questions about the decisions that bring some defendants into such
courts and keep others out. Because of risks perceived in diverting mentally ill defendants …

How will we know if mental health courts are effective? The answers provided by future
evaluation research will reflect the extent to which the social and procedural complexity of …

Although both adult and juvenile mental health courts have emerged in recent years, this
publication pertains only to adult mental health courts. The 10 elements presented are …

While problem-solving courts may soon become permanent fixtures within the criminal
justice system in Canada, little is actually known of their effectiveness in dealing with crime …

The number of mental health courts in the United States is rapidly increasing, from one in
1997 to nearly 100 in 2004. However, to date there is comparatively little research regarding …

Executive Summary The Brooklyn Mental Health Court began operations in March 2002 as
a demonstration project in the Kings County Supreme Court in Brooklyn, New York. Through …

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 …

Mental health courts divert offenders with mental illness away from incarceration in return for
participation in monitored mental health treatment. Since their inception in the late 1990s …

The creation of specialty mental health courts has emerged as a strategy to address the
impact of persons with mental illness in the criminal justice system by consolidating the …