The overrepresentation of people with serious mental illness in the criminal justice system is
a complex problem. A long-standing explanation for this phenomenon, the criminalization …

There are calls across America for police to re-imagine themselves as 'guardians' rather
than 'warriors' in the performance of their innumerable duties. The contentious history of …

Although improving police responses to mental health crises has received significant policy
attention, most encounters between police and persons with mental illnesses do not involve …

The purpose of this paper is to cast a vision for the next generation of behavioral health and
criminal justice interventions for persons with serious mental illnesses in the criminal justice …

Background Homelessness and mental illness have a strong association with public
disorder and criminality. Experimental evidence indicates that Housing First (HF) increases …

An open trial design was used to examine the implementation and effectiveness of a
cognitive–behavioral intervention (Seeking Safety) for comorbid post-traumatic stress …

Many probation agencies in the United States assign offenders with mental illness to
relatively small specialty caseloads supervised by officers with relevant training, rather than …

Recent research has documented the unusually high rates of incarcerated women's serious
mental illness (SMI) and substance use disorders (SUD). Complicating these high rates is …

Purpose We examine all releases to parole supervision in a single state over a period of four
years to consider how a diagnosis of mental illness is associated with return to incarceration …

Communities with histories of oppression have shown great resilience, yet few health
interventions focus on structural oppression as a contributor to health problems in these …