Is Diversion Swift?: Comparing Mental Health Court and Traditional Criminal Justice Processing

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 420-433

  Redlich, Allison D ^a   Liu, Siyu ^a   Steadman, Henry J ^b   Callahan, Lisa ^b   Robbins, Pamela C ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Policy Research Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

diversion; mental health courts; offenders with mental illness; processing time

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863268201     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854811432424     Document Type: Article

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