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Beyond the “Revolving Door?”: Incentives and Criminal Recidivism in a Mental Health Court:
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In this article, a mixed-methods approach was used to evaluate the effectiveness of one specialized mental health court (MHC) on different measures of criminal recidivism with logistic regression, event history analysis, and negative binomial regression.Abstract:
Specialized mental health courts (MHCs) address the growing problem of defendants with mental illness cycling through the criminal justice system. Employing a mixed-methods approach, this article explores if MHCs can slow the “revolving door” of criminal justice involvement. We use quantitative data to evaluate the effectiveness of one MHC on different measures of criminal recidivism with logistic regression, event history analysis, and negative binomial regression. Modeling strategies report that graduates of MHC, defendants offered a dismissal of criminal charges, and defendants who maintained the same noncrisis mental health treatment while in court as they had prior to court had lower odds of new criminal charges, a longer time to a new criminal charge, and fewer new criminal charges. Qualitative data—court observations and interviews—suggest that providing incentives for program compliance, connecting defendants to planned mental health treatment services, and court completion are central to reducing...read more
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Examining Mental Health Court Completion: A Focal Concerns Perspective
TL;DR: This paper used a mixed-method approach to examine focal concerns in a mental health court (MHC) and found that gender and length of time in court influence the court's contextualization of noncompliance.
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Successful Reintegration and Mental Health: An Examination of Gender Differences Among Reentering Offenders
TL;DR: In the year after leaving prison, men and women with mental health problems reported worse health indicators and less satisfactory social factors, such as employment, housing, and family support.
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“You Know Baseball? 3 Strikes”: Understanding Racial Disparity with Mixed Methods for Probation Review Hearings
Romain Dagenhardt,M Danielle +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined the factors that influence judicial sanctioning of probationers for non-compliance in a domestic violence court and found that drug use, missed treatment sessions, gender, race, and family status influenced sanctioning decisions.
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A Three Stage Model for Mental Health Treatment Court: A Qualitative Analysis of Graduates' Perspectives.
TL;DR: A qualitative research group interview design was conducted with program graduates resulting in a three stage model and participant’s motivation was initially to avoid jail, but over time participants begin to make intentional choices leading to mental health recovery.
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Assessing the Effect of Mental Health Courts on Adult and Juvenile Recidivism: A Meta-Analysis
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a meta-analysis of 38 effect sizes collected from 30 evaluations conducted from 1997 through 2020 on the impact of mental health courts on recidivism for adults and juveniles with mental health issues in the United States.
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Mental Health Court and Assisted Outpatient Treatment: Perceived Coercion, Procedural Justice, and Program Impact
TL;DR: Findings suggest that judges and case managers can affect participants' perceptions of these programs by the degree to which they demonstrate procedural justice, a process that may affect the long-term effects of the programs on individuals.
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Examining Mental Health Court Completion: A Focal Concerns Perspective
Bradley Ray,Cindy Brooks Dollar +1 more
TL;DR: The authors used a mixed-method approach to examine focal concerns in a mental health court (MHC) and found that gender and length of time in court influence the court's contextualization of noncompliance.
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The Impact of Treatment on the Public Safety Outcomes of Mental Health Court Participants
TL;DR: It was found that on discharge from jail on target charges, MHC participants accessed community treatment more quickly than did the TAU respondents, and one year after enrollment, the MHC sample had more intensive and therapeutic treatment episodes than the TAUs.
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Predictors of Criminal Justice Outcomes Among Mental Health Courts Participants: The Role of Perceived Coercion and Subjective Mental Health Recovery
TL;DR: Perceptions of “negative pressures,” a component of coercion, were important predictors of criminal justice involvement in the 12-month period following MHC admission, even when controlling for other factors that were related to criminal justice outcomes.
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Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health Care Costs of Mental Health Court Participants: A Six-Year Study
Henry J. Steadman,Lisa Callahan,Pamela Clark Robbins,Roumen Vesselinov,Thomas G. McGuire,Joseph P. Morrissey +5 more
TL;DR: Participation in an MHC may not result in total cost savings in the three years after enrollment, and MHCs need to more effectively define the target group for intervention.