Experiments in Change: Pretrial Diversion of Offenders with Mental Illness
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Experiments in change: pretrial diversion of offenders with mental illness.
OBJECTIVE Our objective was to study the outcomes experienced by 2 communities after implementing pretrial diversion of offenders with mental illness. METHOD The same method of diversion was implemented in a predominately urban and a predominantly rural county. We collected retrospective clinical and offence data from pretrial diversion assessments conducted in court. As well, we measured out...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0706-7437,1497-0015
DOI: 10.1177/070674370204700506