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McGaha A, Boothroyd RA, Poythress NG, Petrila J, Ort RG. Eval. Program Plann. 2002; 25(2): 125-135. |
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(Copyright © 2002, Elsevier Publishing) |
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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. |