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  • Video

    Transforming Lives: The Brooklyn Mental Health Court

    The Brooklyn Mental Health Court represents the Center for Court Innovation's commitment to offering treatment rather than incarceration to people with mental illness who have been convicted of a crime. In 2019, the court commemorated the graduation of its thousandth successful participant.

    Problem-Solving Justice, Rethinking Incarceration, Treatment Courts
  • Publication

    Evidence-Based Risk Assessment in a Mental Health Court: A Validation Study of the COMPAS Risk Assessment

    by Warren A. Reich, Sarah Picard, Virginia Barber Rioja, and Merrill Rotter

    This study examines the validity of the COMPAS with offenders who have a serious mental illness. A widely used risk-needs assessment tool, the COMPAS was found to be a good predictor of re-arrest with this population, although it was more effective in distinguishing low-risk offenders from all others than in identifying those who pose a medium as opposed to a high risk of re-arrest. Overall, approximately two-thirds of study-participants were classified as low risk.

    Treatment Courts, Risk Assessment, Evidence-Based Practices
  • Publication

    Predictors of Mental Health Court Program Compliance and Rearrest in Brooklyn, New York

    by Warren A. Reich, Sarah Picard, Lenore Lebron, and Josephine Hahn

    In this article, mental health court graduation, in-program jail sanctions, and rearrest were tracked for 654 participants in the Brooklyn Mental Health Court. In general, risk factors for negative outcomes included a prior history of arrest or incarceration, having current property charges, current unemployment, homelessness at time of intake, and having a co-occurring substance use disorder. 

    Treatment Courts
  • Audio

    Mental Health and Justice on the Last Frontier: A Conversation about the Anchorage Mental Health Court

    Judge Stephanie L. Rhoades, who helped found and has presided over the Anchorage Mental Health Court since 1998, and Kathi R. Trawver, associate professor of the School of Social Work at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, discuss the court's origins, accomplishments and lessons.

    Treatment Courts
  • Publication

    Criminal Justice Interventions for Offenders with Mental Illness: Evaluation of Mental Health Courts in Bronx and Brooklyn, New York

    by Shelli B. Rossman, Janeen Buck Willison, Kamala Mallik Kane, KiDeuk Kim, Sara Debus-Sherrill, and P. Mitchell Downey

    This Urban Institute evaluation of two mental health courts in New York City finds that mental health court participants are significantly less likely to recidivate, as compared to similar offenders with mental illness who experience business-as-usual court processing.

    Treatment Courts
  • Publication

    Predictors of Program Compliance and Re-arrest in the Brooklyn Mental Health Court

    by Warren A. Reich, Sarah Picard, Josephine Hahn, and Lenore Lebron

    An examination of factors associated with program compliance and recidivism in the Brooklyn Mental Health Court, this report documents that prior criminal history and having a co-occurring substance disorder predict noncompliance, mental health court failure, and re-arrest.

    Treatment Courts
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