Note
"Coordinated by:
Council of State Governments"--Title page.
"Project partners: Association of State Correctional Administrators (ASCA); Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law Center for Behavioral Health, Justice & Public Policy; National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD); Police Executive Research Forum (PERF); Pretrial Services Resource Center (PSRC)"--Title page.
"June 2002"--Title page.
Résumé
"The Criminal Justice / Mental Health Consensus Project is a unique effort
to define the measures that state legislators, law enforcement officials, prosecutors,
defense attorneys, judges, corrections administrators, community corrections
officials, and victim advocates, mental health advocates, consumers,
state mental health directors, and community-based providers agree will improve
the response to people with mental illness who are in contact (or at high
risk of involvement) with the criminal justice system.
The target audience of the Consensus Project Report is those individuals
who can be characterized as agents of change: state policymakers who can
have a broad systemic impact on the problem and an array of practitioners and
advocates who can shape a community’s response to the problem.
The report provides 46 policy statements that can serve as a guide or prompt
an initiative to improve the criminal justice system’s response to people with
mental illness. Following each policy statement is a series of more specific
recommendations that highlight the practical steps that should be taken to
implement the policy. Woven into the discussion of each recommendation are
examples of programs, policies, or elements of state statutes that illustrate one
or more jurisdiction’s attempt to implement a particular policy statement."--Text from page xiv.
Contenu
Part 1. Select events on the criminal justice continuum -- I. Involvement with the mental health system -- II. Contact with law enforcement -- III. Pretrial issues, adjudication, and sentencing -- IV. Incarceration and reentry -- Part 2. Overarching themes -- V. Improving collaboration -- VI. Training practitioners and policymakers and educating the community -- VII. Elements of an effective mental health system -- VIII. Measuring and evaluating outcomes -- Appendix A. Glossary -- Appendix B.
Program examples
cited in report -- Appendix C.
An explanation of
Federal Medicaid and
Disability Program rules -- Appendix D.
Project history/
methodology -- Appendix E.
Steering Committee -- Appendix F.
Bibliography.