Professional Interaction in Mental Health Courts: Processing Defendants with Mental Illness

Mental health courts.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW To describe the aims and objectives of mental health courts. To give an overview of the current literature devoted to mental health courts. To suggest where we might go in the future. RECENT FINDINGS While not flawless, mental health courts represent an innovative approach to addressing the needs of individuals within our society who have historically been alienated by both ...

Theorizing Mental Health Courts

To date, no scholarly article has analyzed the theoretical basis of mental health courts, which currently exist in forty-three states. This Article examines the two utilitarian justifications proposed by mental health court advocates—therapeutic jurisprudence and therapeutic rehabilitation—and finds both insufficient. Therapeutic jurisprudence is inadequate to justify mental health courts becau...

Mental Health or Mental Illness

re^ reader daring enough to venture beyond the glaring cover will find his a?^s in this concise treatise on Mental Health and Illness. Jhe author feels strongly that: the problem of mental illness and abnormal functioning cannot be solved unless more people, having learned about the problem, will take an active Part instead of leaving the whole situation in the hands of psychiatrists". Later he...

Mental Health—Or Mental Illness?

Defendants with intellectual disabilities and mental health diagnoses: faring in a mental health court.

BACKGROUND Begun in the late 1990s, mental health courts are specialty criminal courts developed to address the needs of persons with mental illness. METHODS As many persons with intellectual disabilities (IDs) may overlap in the mental health court system, we used mental health court records to examine the phenomenology and outcomes of 224 defendants with and without co-occurring IDs in the ...