Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health
Assault‐on‐Law‐Enforcement: The Complications of Charges for Individuals on Mental Health Court Dockets
ABSTRACT Background Mental health courts divert individuals with serious mental illness away from imprisonment into community‐based treatment and supervision. Early research indicates that such treatment contracts can reduce recidivism and provide various other benefits. Aspects of eligibility for this diversion option are still under‐researched. Aims To explore the nature of alleged offences against people accepted into mental health courts (on mental health court dockets), and their demographic and mental health …