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 …

Objective To identify existing evidence on interagency collaboration between law
enforcement, emergency services, statutory services and third sector agencies regarding …

The crisis intervention team (CIT) is a tool that can be used to foster pre‐booking diversion of
individuals with mental illness from the criminal justice system and into community treatment …

Linking prisoners with mental illness with treatment following release is critical to preventing
recidivism, but little research exists to inform efforts to engage them effectively. This …

Prison-based therapeutic community (TC) programming is derived from the perspective that
drug addiction is primarily symptomatic of cognitive dysfunction, poor emotional …

Forensic assertive community treatment (FACT) is an adaptation of Assertive Community
Treatment (ACT), a widely-studied evidence-based model for mental health services …

Indonesia is presently undergoing a reform of its criminal law system to decolonize the
existing criminal legislation that persists. The existing criminal law, which the Netherlands …

Objective: Peer specialists are frequently employed in mental health settings, with growing
evidence for positive impact on subjective aspects of recovery. As more individuals within …

Forensic assertive community treatment (FACT) has emerged internationally as an
intervention strategy for people with serious mental disorders who are involved with the …

Law enforcement officers continue to serve on the front lines as mental health
interventionists, and as such have been subject to a wave of “first generation” reform …