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- Title
Research Protections for Diverted Mentally Ill Individuals: Should they be Considered Prisoners?
- Authors
Amory Carr, W.; Amrhein, Charles; Dery, Ryna
- Abstract
The number of diversion programs for the mentally ill has increased dramatically over the past decade. These programs serve the valuable goal of reducing the growing population of incarcerated mentally ill persons by providing supervised community treatment. Research within these programs, critical for improving outcomes for these vulnerable individuals, is complicated by the fact that participants may have legal statuses which carry significant coercive leverage. In this way their ability to freely consent to research may be limited. In this paper, the authors describe the practice of diversion and review relevant research on coercion, informed consent and decisional capacity among the mentally ill and imprisoned. Current legal protections for prisoners are then discussed in the light of a recent proposal to broaden the legal definition of 'prisoner' for research purposes to include community corrections populations, thus including diverted individuals. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PEOPLE with mental illness; RESEARCH ethics; DIVERSION programs; INFORMED consent (Law); CORRECTIONAL institutions
- Publication
Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 2011, Vol 29, Issue 6, p796
- ISSN
0735-3936
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bsl.1010