Whom should we divert and to where? Looking at arrests in a 10-year cohort study of persons with severe mental illness
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Background For the last decade, diverting arrestees with mental illness from the criminal justice to the mental health systems has been a mainstay of US mental health policy. However, data allowing us to gauge the size and charge characteristics of arrestees with mental illness have been generally unavailable to planners and policymakers in this area. This paper represents an effort toward providing such data.
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