@article{b202129959af4427b78858cd5dcf69d0,
title = "Envisioning the next generation of behavioral health and criminal justice interventions",
abstract = "The purpose of this paper is to cast a vision for the next generation of behavioral health and criminal justice interventions for persons with serious mental illnesses in the criminal justice system. The limitations of first generation interventions, including their primary focus on mental health treatment connection, are discussed. A person-place framework for understanding the complex factors that contribute to criminal justice involvement for this population is presented. We discuss practice and research recommendations for building more effective interventions to address both criminal justice and mental health outcomes.",
keywords = "Behavioral health, Criminal justice, Intervention, Serious mental illnesses",
author = "Epperson, {Matthew W.} and Nancy Wolff and Morgan, {Robert D.} and Fisher, {William H.} and Frueh, {B. Christopher} and Jessica Huening",
note = "Funding Information: Federal legislation and state and local policies responded to the growing concern about the criminalization of persons with SMI. In 1997, the Jail Diversion Knowledge Development Application initiative was launched by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services ( Case, Steadman, Dupuis, & Morris, 2009 ). The Center for Mental Health Services later supported jail diversion programs through several Targeted Capacity Expansion funding projects. America's Law Enforcement and Mental Health Project was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 2000, which established the Mental Health Courts Program within the U.S. Department of Justice, and provided grants to develop continuing judicial supervision and the coordinated delivery of services to persons with SMI in the criminal justice system ( Litschge & Vaughn, 2009 ). Even more influential was a second piece of federal legislation: the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act (MIOTCRA), signed by President George W. Bush in 2004, which has authorized over $50 million in grants to promote the development of first generation interventions ( Council of State Governments Justice Center, 2012 ). The MIOTCRA, informed by President Bush's New Freedom Commission's 2004 report, recommended diversion from jails and prisons to mental health treatment programs for persons with SMI as an emerging best practice and cost-saving measure ( Litschge & Vaughn, 2009 ). The MIOTCRA offered incentives for state and local governments to create policies and programs that would foster an environment that was supportive of and hospitable to interventions focusing on mental health service linkage for justice-involved persons with SMI. For example, both California and Florida have developed formal grant programs geared toward crime reduction and reinvestment for persons with SMI ( Case et al., 2009 ). ",
year = "2014",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1016/j.ijlp.2014.02.015",
language = "English",
volume = "37",
pages = "427--438",
journal = "International Journal of Law and Psychiatry",
issn = "0160-2527",
number = "5",
}