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Assessing the effectiveness of mental health courts: A quantitative review

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The findings suggest that MHCs are an effective intervention but this assertion is not definitive as many of the studies are not as strong as would be ideal thus limiting the conclusions.
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This article is published in Journal of Criminal Justice.The article was published on 2011-01-01. It has received 166 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mental health court & Mental health.

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Effect of behavioral health services and neighborhood disadvantages on recidivism: a comparison of mental health court and traditional court participants

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of behavioral health services and neighborhood disadvantage on recidivism among offenders with mental illness in mental health courts (MHCs) and in traditional courts was investigated.
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Deciding to participate in mental health court: Exploring participant perspectives

TL;DR: Interviews with MHC participants suggest that individuals participated in MHC to avoid incarceration and obtain treatment, and understood the court to function in four distinct ways.
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Rearrests During Mental Health Court Supervision: Predicting Rearrest and Its Association with Final Court Disposition and Postcourt Rearrests

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a sample of 811 participants of a municipal mental health court, and found that 23.2% of participants were rearrested during court supervision.
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“People, places, and things:” Network factors matter in the experiences of mental health court participants

TL;DR: Study results suggest network factors are significantly associated with treatment adherence and play an important role in recovery and have implications for social work practice and research.
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What Works in Reentry and How to Improve Outcomes

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the scientific literature regarding prisoner reentry initiatives is presented, where the authors synthesize a vast body of literature on the prisoner re-entry phenomenon and provide to both the academician and correctional professionals ways to understand prisoner reentration.
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Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement

TL;DR: Moher et al. as mentioned in this paper introduce PRISMA, an update of the QUOROM guidelines for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses, which is used in this paper.
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Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA Statement.

TL;DR: The QUOROM Statement (QUality Of Reporting Of Meta-analyses) as mentioned in this paper was developed to address the suboptimal reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
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A Coefficient of agreement for nominal Scales

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a procedure for having two or more judges independently categorize a sample of units and determine the degree, significance, and significance of the units. But they do not discuss the extent to which these judgments are reproducible, i.e., reliable.
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Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement

TL;DR: PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) is introduced, an update of the QUOROM guidelines for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
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