Mental health interventions for individuals with serious mental illness in the criminal legal system: a systematic review

M Hailemariam, TE Bustos, BW Montgomery, G Brown… - BMC psychiatry, 2024 - Springer
Background Globally, individuals with mental illness get in contact with the law at a greater
rate than the general population. The goal of this review was to identify and describe:(1) …

Interventions for female drug‐using offenders

AE Perry, M Martyn‐St James, L Burns… - Cochrane Database …, 2019 - cochranelibrary.com
Background This review represents one in a family of three reviews focusing on the
effectiveness of interventions in reducing drug use and criminal activity for offenders …

Community reentry: Racial/ethnic differences in unmet needs among adults with co-occurring opioid use and mental health disorder

A Gaba, A Helm, PM Shaffer, B Pridgen… - International journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Adults with co-occurring opioid use and mental health disorder (COD) recently
released from incarceration have many social and health needs that place them at the most …

Augmenting substance use treatment in the drug court: A pilot randomized trial of peer recovery support

S Belenko, AB LaPollo, N Gesser, D Weiland… - Journal of Substance …, 2021 - Elsevier
Introduction Peer recovery specialist (PRS) support has been used to varying degrees in
community substance use and mental health treatment for a number of years. Although there …

Impact of peer specialist services on residential stability and behavioral health status among formerly homeless veterans with cooccurring mental health and …

ML Ellison, RK Schutt, LH Yuan, C Mitchell-Miland… - Medical …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: This study tested the impacts of peer specialists on housing stability, substance
abuse, and mental health status for previously homeless Veterans with cooccurring mental …

Barriers and facilitators to recovery capital among justice-involved community members

LS Kahn, BM Vest, JA Kulak, DE Berdine… - Journal of Offender …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This qualitative interview study explores barriers and facilitators to self-sufficiency among
clients enrolled in HOPE: a transitional case-management program in Western New York …

Forensic peer specialists: Training, employment, and lived experience.

WE Adams, AK Lincoln - Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Despite calls for increased peer support services for individuals involved with the
criminal justice system, little is known about the training, employment, and characteristics of …

Implementation of MISSION–Criminal Justice in a treatment court: Preliminary outcomes among individuals with co-occurring disorders

DA Pinals, A Gaba, KM Clary, J Barber… - Psychiatric …, 2019 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Mental health courts provide an alternative to incarceration and address both
mental health and criminal justice needs. Many individuals within these treatment courts …

Barriers to medications for opioid use disorder among veterans involved in the legal system: a qualitative study

AK Finlay, E Morse, M Stimmel, E Taylor… - Journal of general …, 2020 - Springer
Background Veterans involved in the legal system are at high risk for overdose but have
lower receipt of medications for opioid use disorder than other veterans. Objective The study …

Integrating a co-occurring disorders intervention in a rural drug treatment court: Preliminary 6-month outcomes and policy implications

PM Shaffer, DA Smelson, A Gaba, SC Casey - International Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Little research has focused on systematically integrating clinical treatment within drug court
settings (a type of specialty court, and the most popular type of alternative to incarceration …