About Mental Health Courts
Mental Health Courts. Mental Health Courts are specialized treatment courts for eligible justice involved individuals living with mental illness that substitute ...
Law & psychiatry: what can we say about mental health courts today?
Mental health courts (MHCs) are a popular type of problem-solving court, and there is ample evidence that they reduce recidivism and increase participation ...
A Review of Literature on Mental Health Court Goals, Effectiveness ...
This article provides a review of literature on mental health courts, including court operations, effectiveness, and related issues.
About Mental Health Courts - Michigan Courts
Mental health court diverts select defendants with mental illness into judicially-supervised, community-based treatment. Defendants are invited to participate ...
Mental Health Alternative Courts - Indy.gov
MHAC is based on a problem-solving court model and diverts eligible defendants with mental illness to specialized criminal court dockets. If admitted, ...
Municipal Mental Health Court - St. Louis County Website
The St. Louis County Municipal Mental Health Court is limited to municipal offenses only. Program participation is voluntary for persons with misdemeanor or ...
Mental Health Courts (Recovery with Justice) - Mass.gov
Mental health court sessions include a court-imposed condition of probation for defendants who have serious mental illness or co-occurring ...
Mental Health Court | North Carolina Judicial Branch
Eligibility. To be eligible, offenders must have a mental health diagnosis or mental health treatment history, with priority given to defendants with severe and ...
Mental Health Courts and the Complex Issue of Mentally Ill Offenders
Out of the work of this task force, the idea for the mental health court was born. The goal of the specialized docket is to centralize most ...
Mental Health Courts: A Primer for Policymakers and Practitioners
Like drug courts and other “problem-solving courts,” after which they are modeled, mental health courts move beyond the criminal court's traditional focus on ...
Are Courts Designed to Handle Mental Health Issues? - NCSC
Determining which court cases involving individuals with serious mental illness need to stay in the justice system and which cases can be diverted out of the ...
Mental Health Court - Arkansas Judiciary
Mental Health Court is a voluntary, fourteen-to-eighteen month, multi-phase intervention program for adults involved in the criminal justice system due to ...
Mental Health Courts - Michigan Courts
Mental health court is modeled after drug court and was developed in response to the overrepresentation of people with mental illnesses in the criminal justice ...
Mental Health Courts Are Popular, But Are They Effective? - NPR
Offenders who are arrested and complete the mental health court program have a much lower recidivism rate than their peers: 20 percent versus 72 ...
Mental Health Courts: Pros & Cons - Video - Study.com
Placing mentally-ill offenders in mental health court in lieu of incarceration has proven to be beneficial for all; however, what are the...
Mental Health Courts - National Treatment Court Resource Center
View our collection of sample operational documents for Mental Health Treatment Courts sorted by function.
Mental health courts: A misguided attempt to address the criminal ...
Mental health courts have proliferated in tandem with rising concerns about large numbers of people with mental illnesses cycling through the criminal ...
Mental health courts are specialty courts that were established to improve the response to individuals with serious mental illnesses who have come into contact ...
Mental Health and Criminal Justice Issues
Mental Health and Criminal Justice Issues The increasing number of individuals with mental health and substance use conditions in the criminal justice ...
Mental Health Courts: A Guide to Research-Informed Policy and ...
Reviews the design and function of mental health courts, outcomes of mental health court participation, and questions and implications for policy and practice.