Mental health courts (MHCs) generally began to appear in 1997. Today, more than 80 courts
exist in the United States. In the present article, the authors argue that the 2nd generation of …

Law & Psychiatry operated until 1992, when it was temporarily suspended. It was revived as
the PAIR Mental Health Diversion Project in 1996 and continued to serve only mentally ill …

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 …

Courts specializing in the adjudication of mentally ill defendants are relatively new to the
United States. Steadman, Davidson, and Brown (2001) proposed a four-part functional …

The history of American jurisprudence is propelled by novel innovations that shift practices
and underlying assumptions about the proper role and scope of the criminal justice system …

The present study examines legal, service use and substance abuse outcomes for a sample
of participants in the Washoe County, Nevada MHC and suggests what occurs during MHC …

Mental health courts (MHCs) represent an important new development at the interface of the
criminal justice and mental health systems. MHCs are criminal courts for persons with …

This article examines congressional testimony preceding the passage of legislation
authorizing federal funds for mental health courts and makes the case for the importance of …

Mental health courts have quickly proliferated in the United States and represent an attempt
to expand legal leverage and enhanced treatment access to select persons with severe …

Discussion The findings from these studies provide some interesting insights into the
Broward MHC process as well as preliminary data regarding service utilization of …