Mental health courts and their selection processes: Modeling variation for consistency

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 402-412

  Wolff, Nancy ^a   Fabrikant, Nicole ^a   Belenko, Steven ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Admission processes; Mental health courts; Selection bias

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CRIMINAL LAW; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRISONER; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CRIMINAL LAW; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PRISONERS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELECTION BIAS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79961166674     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10979-010-9250-4     Document Type: Article

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