Seattle's mental health courts: early indicators of effectiveness

Trupin, Eric W.; Richards, Henry

doi:10.1016/s0160-2527(02)00202-9

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“…The significant main effect for reduced arrests over time replicates a finding reported for the municipal mental health court in Seattle, although the county level Seattle mental health court sample obtained reduced booking rates whereas the control group for that court did not (Trupin & Richards, 2003). This highlights an important caveat regarding the findings from our study-our results may not necessarily generalize to other settings, given organizational and structural differences between the Broward County Mental Health Court and other mental health courts (Trupin & Richards, 2003). The Broward County Mental Health Court operates on a pre-adjudication basis and only takes cases with misdemeanor charges, with the additional exclusion of cases with charges of domestic violence and driving under the influences.…”

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confidence: 81%

“…In the present study, patterns of participant self-report data regarding aggressive or violent acts did not suggest significantly higher rates of problem behavior for the MHC sample. The significant main effect for reduced arrests over time replicates a finding reported for the municipal mental health court in Seattle, although the county level Seattle mental health court sample obtained reduced booking rates whereas the control group for that court did not (Trupin & Richards, 2003). This highlights an important caveat regarding the findings from our study-our results may not necessarily generalize to other settings, given organizational and structural differences between the Broward County Mental Health Court and other mental health courts (Trupin & Richards, 2003).…”

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confidence: 72%

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Evaluating the efficiency and community safety goals of the Broward County Mental Health Court

Christy

Poythress²,

Boothroyd³

et al. 2005

Behavioral Sci & The Law

134

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Mental health courts have developed as one response to persons with mental illness who are involved with the criminal justice system. This study investigated the efficiency and safety goals of one such court in Broward County, FL. Mental health court (MHC) clients spent significantly fewer days in jail for the index arrest associated with study enrollment than a comparison group. MHC clients had similar survival time to re-arrest up to one year after study enrollment. MHC clients did not significantly differ from the comparison group in self-reported aggressive acts over an 8 month follow-up period, while they did self-report significantly fewer acts of violence than the comparison group at the 8 month follow-up. These findings suggest that some of the benefits associated with the MHC reported in prior studies were not achieved at the expense of efficiency and safety.

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Evaluating the efficiency and community safety goals of the Broward County Mental Health Court

Christy

Poythress²,

Boothroyd³

et al. 2005

Behavioral Sci & The Law

134

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“…Since the inception of the Broward County Florida Mental Health Court in 1997 (Boothroyd, Poythress, McGaha, & Petrila, 2003), mental health courts have been developed in a number of jurisdictions, including Seattle/King County Washington (Trupin & Richards, 2003). In 2001, Congress made federal funds available to local jurisdictions seeking to establish or expand mental health specialty courts and diversion programs with passage of Public Law Number 107-77 (2001).…”

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“…Public mental health services in the county had shifted from a fee-for-service to managed care system in 1995, and in 1999 the county assumed financial responsibility for inpatient as well as outpatient services. Resources for mental health and substance abuse services, and appropriate housing, were described as restricted or unavailable even after the development of the Seattle mental health courts (Trupin & Richards, 2003).…”

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The role of competency to stand trial in mental health courts

Stafford

Wygant

2005

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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Concerns have been raised in the literature about the competency to stand trial and competency to make treatment decisions of defendants referred to mental health courts. However, there is little information reported about the evaluation and prevalence of incompetence, characteristics of incompetent mental health court defendants, and disposition of mentally ill defendants too disturbed to be diverted from the criminal justice system through mental health courts. This study reports on the 85 potential mental health court defendants referred for trial competency evaluations during the first three years of operation of the Akron Ohio Mental Health Court. Of the 80 defendants who could be located for evaluation, 77.5% were found incompetent, and 53% of the incompetent defendants were not restored to competence even after an average of 49 days of treatment in a state psychiatric hospital. The implications of these findings in terms of the diversion potential of mental health courts for the severely mentally ill are discussed.

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“…Un troisième enjeu concerne la définition des indicateurs de « succès » et la manière la plus juste de le mesurer (Trupin et Richards, 2003 ;Wolff et Pogorzelski, 2005). La criminalisation et l'impact clinique varient énormément selon le type de mesure, la fréquence, le temps écoulé depuis l'entrée au tribunal et l'évaluation de l'efficacité sur l'accès aux services.…”

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Les Tribunaux de santé mentale : déjudiciarisation et jurisprudence thérapeutique

Jaimes

Crocker

Bédard

2010

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Au Québec comme ailleurs en Amérique, la désinstitutionalisation, le manque de ressources et de services communautaires de santé mentale de même que les changements législatifs ont contribué à une augmentation des probabilités que des personnes atteintes de troubles de santé mentale aient des démêlés avec la justice. Les Tribunaux de santé mentale constituent une forme de déjudiciarisation, basée sur des principes de jurisprudence thérapeutique, qui prend forme au coeur des activités de la Cour. Cet article présente une synthèse critique de la littérature scientifique sur le sujet. Les auteurs exposent d’abord le contexte psycho-légal dans lequel ont émergé les Tribunaux de santé mentale puis décrivent le fonctionnement et les objectifs de ces entités judiciaires. L’article décrit ensuite le Plan d’Accompagnement Justice et Santé Mentale (PAJ-SM), le premier projet pilote de tribunal de santé mentale à Montréal, et le premier en son genre au Québec. On examine ensuite les études d’efficacité de ces institutions et les enjeux des programmes de déjudiciarisation. Les défis et les limites inhérents aux tribunaux spécialisés et la recherche qui les concerne sont discutés, ainsi que certaines alternatives tant au niveau de l’intervention que des méthodes de recherche. Les auteurs concluent que si les Tribunaux de santé mentale offrent des pistes prometteuses, ils ne constituent pas une panacée aux problèmes complexes situés à l’interface de la santé mentale et de la justice. Ces initiatives ne devraient pas occulter les autres mesures de déjudiciarisation en amont, ni la question centrale de l’accès aux services de santé mentale et de leur adéquation aux besoins des diverses clientèles.

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Seattle's mental health courts: early indicators of effectiveness

Cited by 102 publications

References 11 publications

Evaluating the efficiency and community safety goals of the Broward County Mental Health Court

Evaluating the efficiency and community safety goals of the Broward County Mental Health Court

The role of competency to stand trial in mental health courts

Les Tribunaux de santé mentale : déjudiciarisation et jurisprudence thérapeutique

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