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- Title
Mental health courts and forensic assertive community treatment teams as correctional diversion programs.
- Authors
Landess, Jacqueline; Holoyda, Brian
- Abstract
Problem-solving courts (PSCs) developed as a means of mandating treatment and judicial supervision of certain types of court participants. PSCs have rapidly expanded in number and type over several decades. Mental health courts (MHCs) are a type of PSC that arose in response to the growing number of persons with mental illness within the criminal justice system. Their primary role is to divert individuals with mental illness from incarceration into psychiatric treatment and to reduce recidivism while improving psychosocial functioning of participants. Although different in history, philosophy, and program structure, forensic assertive community treatment (FACT) programs serve a similar goal of reducing recidivism and improving functioning in persons with mental illness who are involved with the criminal justice system. FACTs may be used as a standalone diversion option or be linked with a MHC as a form of intensive treatment and monitoring. Suggestions for future research and evaluation of these programs are offered.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PEOPLE with intellectual disabilities &; crime; PEOPLE with intellectual disabilities; ALTERNATIVES to imprisonment; CRISIS intervention (Mental health services); OFFENDERS with intellectual disabilities; CRIMINAL justice system; PRISONS; MENTAL health laws; PSYCHIATRIC diagnosis; MENTAL illness; CRIMINOLOGY; FORENSIC psychiatry; MENTAL health services
- Publication
Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 2017, Vol 35, Issue 5/6, p501
- ISSN
0735-3936
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1002/bsl.2307