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Mental health courts

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Mental health courts, a type of therapeutic court, are special courts which handle cases involving mentally ill offenders by engaging them with appropriate routines of care.

Therapeutic justice & problem-solving courts  |  Mental health courts  |  Drug and alcohol courts

See also:
Alaska Court System
Mental health & the justice system


Justice Center

Recent

"Therapeutic Jurisprudence" by Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage. Alaska Justice Forum 26(1): 10–12 (Spring 2009).

Publications

"Evaluating the Anchorage Mental Health Court" by Teresa W. Carns. Alaska Justice Forum 18(4): 2 (Winter 2002).


Alaska

Alaska Court System: Mental health courts

Both the Justice Center (above) and the Alaska Judicial Council have published a number of articles and studies related to Alaska Court System problem-solving courts.

General information

Mental health courts

Alaska Judicial Council publications

Court Coordinated Resources Project Evaluation Report by Teresa W. Carns, Susan McKelvie, Pat Scott, Kathy Grabowski, Alan R. McKelvie, and Melissa Wininger. Anchorage, AK: Alaska Judicial Council, Jan 2003.

Fairbanks Juvenile Treatment Court: An Evaluation Plan by Teresa W. Carns and Susan McKelvie. Anchorage, AK: Alaska Judicial Council, Nov 2008.

Other publications

"Anchorage Mental Health Court" described in Emerging Judicial Strategies for the Mentally Ill in the Criminal Caseload: Mental Health Courts in Fort Lauderdale, Seattle, San Bernardino, and Anchorage by John S. Goldkamp and Cheryl Irons-Guynn. Bureau of Justice Assistance Monograph, April 2000, NCJ 182504.


National

General information

Individual courts

Publications

Emerging Judicial Strategies for the Mentally Ill in the Criminal Caseload: Mental Health Courts in Fort Lauderdale, Seattle, San Bernardino, and Anchorage by John S. Goldkamp and Cheryl Irons-Guynn. Bureau of Justice Assistance Monograph, April 2000, NCJ 182504.


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