Effectiveness of a Mental Health Court in Reducing Criminal Recidivism and Violence
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...Unlike traditional courts, mental health courts have therapeutic goals, such as increasing treatment adherence, and they are presided over by designated judges (18, 27)....
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...For example, inmates with psychiatric disorders are reported to stay in prison longer than others charged with similar crimes (18)....
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...Preliminary evidence indicates that participation in a mental health court is associated with longer periods without criminal recidivism (18)....
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...A method that can attenuate the biasing effects of nonrandom assignment to treatment versus comparison groups is propensity score weighting (16, 17)....
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...Following Naples and Steadman (23), we categorized charges according to concepts developed by the MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence (24)....
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...Am J Psychiatry 164:9, September 2007 1395 Article ajp.psychiatryonline.org Effectiveness of a Mental Health Court in Reducing Criminal Recidivism and Violence...
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