Discuss mental health courts and why they are useful to the community.
What will be an ideal response?
Mental health courts are designed to ensure that nonviolent mentally ill offenders
are not warehoused in prisons, yet at the same time the goal of these courts is to
ensure that these offenders are not being a nuisance in the community. Often, these
offenders commit petty crimes and are homeless. Because of this, and because the
vast majority of mentally ill offenders are not violent, informal interventions such as
mental health courts are considered a much more effective method of intervention than
jail or prison. These courts provide the offender with treatment and also provide the
police and other community responders a venue to utilize when processing these
offenders. Mental health courts are adept at working with local agencies to both address
the needs of the offender and protect the public’s safety. Intervention and treatment
specialists work with the judge to make certain that services are effectively delivered to
the offender. This, like other previous examples, reflects an integrative casework model
of intervention.
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