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General
web Task Force Recommendations. Oklahoma Governor's and Attorney General's Blue Ribbon Task Force. February 2005.
web The Mentally Ill and the Criminal Justice System. Paul W. Spaite and Mark S. Davis. Funded by NAMI Ohio. June 2005.
web The Impact of the "Incarceration Culture" on Reentry for Adults With Mental Illness: A Training and Group Treatment Model. Merrill Rotter, Hunter L. McQuistion, Nahama Broner, and Michael Steinbacher. Psychiatric Services 56, no. 3. March 2005.
web Can We Determine What Works? A Meta-Analysis of Research Methods Used to Evaluate Behavioral Health Interventions in Criminal Justice Settings. Amy Blank, Wendy Pogorzelski, and Tina Maschi. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology. Nashville, TN. November 2004
web Mental Health Services and Needs in the Criminal Justice System. Daniel Mears, Ph.D. Urban Institute. Houston Journal of Health Law and Policy 255-284.
web Criminal Justice Subcommittee of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health: Background Paper. June 2004.
web Working with People with Mental Illness Involved in the Criminal Justice System: What Mental Health Service Providers Need to Know. Jackie Massaro, TAPA Center for Jail Diversion. September 2003 (revised February 2004).
web Behavioral Health Disorders Among Male Low-Level Offenders. The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati. August 2003.
web The Impact of NY/NY Housing on Criminal Justice System Involvement among Homeless Persons with Serious Mental Illness. Corporation for Supportive Housing. December 27, 2002.
web Criminal Justice Primer for State Mental Health Agencies. National Technical Assistance Center for State Mental Health Planning (NTAC). September 2002.
web The Nathaniel Project: An Alternative to Incarceration Program for People with Serious Mental Illness Who Have Committed Felony Offenses. The National GAINS Center for People with Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System. Fall 2002.
web A Guide to Re-entry Supportive Housing. Corporation for Supportive Housing. April 1, 2002.
  A Five-Year Population Study of Persons Involved in the Mental Health and Local Correctional Systems: Implications for Service Planning. Judith F. Cox, Pamela C. Morschauser, Steven Banks, and James L. Stone. Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research, 2001.
web Correctional Mental Health Care: Standards and Guidelines for Delivering Services. National Commission on Correctional Healthcare (NCCHC). 1999.
web Double Jeopardy: Persons with Mental Illnesses in the Criminal Justice System. Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS). February 24, 1995.
web A Guide to Mental Illness and the Criminal Justice System. National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI). 1995.
What Do We Know About Mental Disorder and Violence? Policy Research Associates, for the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS). December 1994.

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Mental Health Systems
web President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health Final Report. July 2003.
web Turning the Tide: Preserving Community Mental Health Services. Grantmakers in Health. Washington, DC: September 19, 2002.
web Strengthening the Mental Health Safety Net: Issues and Innovations. Health Policy Studies Division, National Governors Association Center for Best Practices. December 7, 2001.
web Integrated Services Reduce Recidivism Among Homeless Adults with Serious Mental Illness in California. The National GAINS Center for People with Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System. Fall 2001.
web Disintegrating Systems: The State of States' Public Mental Health Systems. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. Washington, D.C.: 2001.
web Chapter 15. Persons Treated in Specialty Mental Health Care Programs, United States, 1997. Laura J. Milazzo-Sayre, Marilyn J. Henderson, Ronald W. Manderscheid, Maxime C. Bokossa, Christian Evans, and Alisa A. Male. Mental Health, United States, 2000. Ed. Ronald W. Manderscheid and Marilyn J. Henderson. The Center for Mental Health Services. 2000.
web Involving Families in System Change: Strategies for Families. The National GAINS Center for People with Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System.
web Involving Families in System Change: Strategies for Service Providers. The National GAINS Center for People with Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System.

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Co-Occurring Disorders
web Outcomes of Mandated and Nonmandated New York City Jail Diversion for Offenders with Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Disorders. Nahama Broner, Damon W. Mayrl, and Gerald Landsberg. Prison Journal 85, no. 1. March 2005: 18-49
web The Cost-Effectiveness of Criminal Justice Diversion Programs for People With Serious Mental Illness Co-Occurring With Substance Abuse. Alexander Cowell, Nahama Broner, and Randolph DuPont. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Vol. 20 No. 3, August 2004. 292-315.
web A Comparison of Prebooking and Postbooking Diversion Programs for Mentally Ill Substance-Using Individuals With Justice Involvement. Pamela Lattimore, Nahama Broner, Richard Sherman, Linda Frisman, and Michael Shafer. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Vol. 19 No. 1, February 2003, 30-64.
web Effects of Diversion on Adults with Co-Occurring Mental Illness and Substance Use: Outcomes from a National Multi-Site Study. Nahama Broner, Pamela Lattimore, Alexander Cowell, and William E. Schlenger. Behavioral Sciences and the Law 22: 519-541 (2004).
web Adapting a Substance Abuse Court Diversion Model for Felony Offenders With Co-Occurring Disorders: Initial Implementation. Nahama Broner, Huy Nguyen, Anne Swern, and Stephen Goldfinger. Psychiatric Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 4, Winter 2003
web Prevalence of Co-Occurring Mental and Substance Abuse Disorders in the Criminal Justice System. The National GAINS Center for People with Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System. Spring 2002.
web New Options for Offenders with Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders. The National GAINS Center for People with Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System. Summer 2001.
web Creating Integrated Service Systems for People with Co-Occurring Disorders Diverted from the Criminal Justice System: The King County (Seattle) Experience. The National GAINS Center for People with Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System. Summer 2000.
web Creating Effective Treatment Programs for Persons with Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System. The National GAINS Center for People with Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System. March 2000.
web Using Management Information Systems to Locate People with Serious Mental Illnesses and Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders in the Criminal Justice System for Diversion. The National GAINS Center for People with Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System. Summer 1999.
web Intervention Strategies for Offenders with Co-Occurring Disorders: What Works?. By Roger H. Peters and Holly A. Hills. Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute. Supported by the National GAINS Center for People with Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System. December 1997.
web Screening and Assessment of Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System. The National GAINS Center for People with Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System.

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Advocacy
web An Act Providing a Right to Mental Health Services and Supports: Model Law. Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. Washington, DC: January 2002.
web When a Person with Mental Illness is Arrested: How to Help -- New York State-wide version. Heather Barr, Urban Justice Center Mental Health Project. 2001.
web When a Person with Mental Illness is Arrested: How to Help -- New York City version. Heather Barr, Urban Justice Center Mental Health Project. 2001.
web Dealing with the Criminal Justice System. National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI).

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Assertive Community Treatment
web Mental Health Intensive Case Management (MHICM) in the Department of Veterans Affairs: The Seventh National Performance Monitoring Report FY 2003. Michael Neale, Robert Rosenheck, Joseph Castrodonatti, Albina Martin, Joan Morrissey, Jonas Anderson. Yale University School of Medicine, Departments of Psychiatry and Public Health. West Haven, CT: VA Northeast Program Evaluation Center, 2004.
web Forensic Assertive Community Treatment: Preventing Incarceration of Adults with Severe Mental Illness. J. Stephen Lamberti, Robert Weisman, Dara I. Faden. Psychiatric Services 55, no. 11, 2004.
web Assertive community treatment for people with severe mental illness: Critical ingredients and impact on patients. Gary R. Bond, Robert E. Drake, Kim T. Mueser, and Eric Latimer. Disease Management & Health Outcomes. 2001.
web Economic Impacts of Assertive Community Treatment: A Review of the Literature. Eric A. Latimer. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. June 1999.
web Assertive Community Treatment of Persons with Severe Mental Illness. Leonard I. Stein and Alberto B. Santos. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.

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Mandated Community Treatment
web Mandated community treatment: Beyond outpatient commitment. J. Monahan, R. Bonnie, P. Appelbaum, P. Hyde, H. Steadman, and M. Swartz. Psychiatric Services 52, 2000.

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