Lessons from the Broward County Mental Health Court Evaluation
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2002
Keywords
Mental health courts, Specialty courts, Persons with mental illnesses, Study follow-up and retention, Program evaluation methods
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0149-7189(02)00005-8
Abstract
The creation of specialty mental health courts has emerged as a strategy to address the impact of persons with mental illness in the criminal justice system by consolidating the management of certain types of cases into a single court. This article describes an evaluation of the nation's first such court, the Broward County Mental Health Court. The purpose is to alert those who may conduct future evaluations of these types of courts to some of the contextual, logistic, and management features of our evaluation and the challenges we have encountered doing field research in this unique legal setting.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Evaluation and Program Planning, v. 25, issue 2, p. 125-135
Scholar Commons Citation
Christy, Annette C.; Boothroyd, Roger A.; Poythress, Norman G.; Petrila, John; and Ort, Rhonda G., "Lessons from the Broward County Mental Health Court Evaluation" (2002). Mental Health Law & Policy Faculty Publications. 271.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/mhlp_facpub/271
