UNLABELLED The objective of this retrospective cohort study was to determine whether a jail diversion program significantly reduced the number of days of incarceration over the year following arrest in a sample of seriously mentally ill (SMI) people who had been arrested for a minor crime. METHODS A group of 314 SMI detainees were diverted out of jail and into mental health treatment. They we...

UNLABELLED The objective of this article is to examine the effectiveness of 2 theoretically different treatments delivered in juvenile drug court--family therapy represented by multidimensional family therapy (MDFT) and group-based treatment represented by adolescent group therapy (AGT)--on offending and substance use. Intent-to-treat sample included 112 youth enrolled in juvenile drug court (p...

Prior to Jackson v. Indiana, psychiatric hospitalization of those found to be incompetent to stand trial often led to an inordinately long confinement, a particularly invidious consequence if the patient had been accused only of a misdemeanor. After a highly publicized murder perpetrated by a patient originally in this category, New York State instituted a rather cumbersome set of procedures de...

OBJECTIVE Although current evidence suggests that the positive effects of multisystemic therapy (MST) on serious crime reach as far as young adulthood, the longer term impact of MST on criminal and noncriminal outcomes in midlife has not been evaluated. In the present study, the authors examined a broad range of criminal and civil court outcomes for serious and violent juvenile offenders who pa...

The present study examined the effect of question format on accuracy and quantity of testimony. Forty college students’ memory for a videotaped theft was assessed through open-ended or multiple-choice questionnaires. High accuracy was found for central information elicited with an open-ended questionnaire and for peripheral information elicited with a multiple-choice questionnaire. Quantity was...

Abstract Firearms increase the risk of lethality in violent intimate relationships. Policies that restrict access to firearms by respondents civil domestic violence protective orders (DVROs) are associated with reductions partner homicide, yet there is scant literature about how such prohibitions implemented. We document four localities implementing gun possession result from and criminal restr...

Freedom of expression is one the essential elements modern democratic states’ standard for basic civil rights and freedoms. It most often guaranteed in constitutions as well ratified acts European international law. Still, freedom speech not absolute, meaning certain situations it may be restricted to protect another legal value. A prominent example hate speech, a means spreading hatred, hostil...

Last Term, the Supreme Court confronted constitutional issues of sex discrimination and search and seizure. First, in Atwater v. City of Lago Vista,1 the Court held that the Fourth Amendment creates no bar to the warrantless arrest of a citizen for a misdemeanor criminal offense. Then, in Nguyen v. INS,2 the Court upheld against an equal protection challenge a statute that imposed different req...