Approximately 700,000 people with major mental disorder enter United States jails each
year (US Department of Justice, 1999), many of whom are arrested repeatedly for minor …

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

There is a consensus that criminal defendants with mental illness pose a major problem for
courts in the United States. Standard case processing methods have proven to be neither …

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 …

American jails and prisons have long struggled with problems associated with mentally ill
persons in their care and custody (Fosdick et al., 1922: 440-443; Beeley, 1927; National …

Although many mental health courts are restricted to misdemeanors, the Brooklyn Mental
Health Court primarily handles felonies. This article describes a felony mental health court …

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

Forced hospitalization of people with mental disorders has long been a critical issue in the
mental health services. Coercion and Aggressive Community Treatment is the first sustained …

Mental health courts are emerging in communities across the country to address the growing
number of individuals with serious mental illness in jails and the complex issues they …