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Predictors of Mental Health Court Graduation
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In this paper, the authors examined what participants brought to MHC, their processing in MHC and their behaviors during MHC to find the strongest impact on graduation, increasing the odds of failure to graduate and reducing, if not eliminating, the direct effects on completion of the risk factors participants brought into court.Abstract:
Mental health courts (MHCs), nontraditional problem-solving courts designed to address underlying causes of offending rather than apportion guilt and punishment, have been reported to reduce offending among persons with mental illness and consequently have been spreading. Graduation from a MHC has been found to be a major predictor of reduced recidivism; yet few studies have examined factors affecting MHC graduation. This study examines what participants brought to MHC, their processing in MHC, and their behaviors during MHC. It found that noncompliant participant behaviors during MHC had the strongest impact on graduation, increasing the odds of failure to graduate and reducing, if not eliminating, the direct effects on completion of the risk factors participants brought into court.read more
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Multidimensional Evaluation of a Mental Health Court: Adherence to the Risk-Need-Responsivity Model
Mary Ann Campbell,Donaldo D. Canales,Ran Wei,Angela E. Totten,W Alex C Macaulay,Julie L. Wershler +5 more
TL;DR: Results suggest that the RNR model may be an effective case management approach for MHCs to assist with decision-making regarding admission, supervision intensity, and intervention targets, and that interventions in MHC contexts should attend to both criminogenic and mental health needs.
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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Recidivism following mental health court exit: Between and within-group comparisons.
TL;DR: Examination of Mental Health Courts for Recidivism 1 year postexit suggests that MHCs may be particularly effective for high-risk participants and that time spent in a MHC has positive effects on recidivism, regardless of graduation status.
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Longer-Term Impacts of Mental Health Courts: Recidivism Two Years After Exit
TL;DR: MHC participation can reduce recidivism for an extended time after court exit and may have an impact on individuals who complete the program beyond the provision of treatment and services.
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Mental Health Court Participants' Perspectives of Success: What Key Outcomes Are We Missing?
Kelli E. Canada,Brad Ray +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored mental health court participants' perceptions of how the mental health courts impacted them and found that participants identified four salient successes that they perceived to result from mental healthcourt participation: improved psychiatric stability, sobriety, improved relationships, and increased engagement in life and mental health.
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Effectiveness of a Mental Health Court in Reducing Criminal Recidivism and Violence
Dale E. McNiel,Renée L. Binder +1 more
TL;DR: It is shown that participation in the mental health court program was associated with longer time without any new criminal charges or new charges for violent crimes and maintenance of reductions in recidivism and violence after graduates were no longer under supervision of themental health court.
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Involuntary out-patient commitment and reduction of violent behaviour in persons with severe mental illness
Jeffrey W. Swanson,Marvin S. Swartz,H. Ryan Wagner,Barbara J. Burns,Randy Borum,Virginia Aldigé Hiday +5 more
TL;DR: OPC may significantly reduce risk of violent behaviour in persons with SMI, in part by improving adherence to medications while diminishing substance misuse.
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Mental Health Court Outcomes: A Comparison of Re-Arrest and Re-Arrest Severity Between Mental Health Court and Traditional Court Participants
TL;DR: Multivariate models support the prediction that mental health courts reduce the number of new arrests and the severity of such re-arrests among mentally ill offenders.
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Effect of Mental Health Courts on Arrests and Jail Days: A Multisite Study
TL;DR: In this article, a prospective multisite study on mental health courts with treatment and control groups was conducted to determine if participation in a mental health court is associated with more favorable criminal justice outcomes than processing through the regular criminal court system.
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Rearrest and Linkage to Mental Health Services Among Clients of the Clark County Mental Health Court Program
TL;DR: The Clark County MHC successfully reduced rearrest rates for new criminal offenses and probation violations and provided the mental health support services to stabilize mental health consumers in the community.