Criminal courts and mental illness : the emergence of specialist problem-solving courts in Australia / Brianna Jade Chesser.

Pyrmont, N.S.W. : Thomson Reuters, 2016.

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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Australia.

Mental health courts -- Australia.

Mental health laws -- Australia.

1. Key Concepts

2. Treatment of the mentally ill as a social construct

3. The Evolution of Theraputic Jurisprudence, Problem-Solving Courts and the Mental Health Court

4. Global and Australian response to the need for courts to address the needs of mentally ill offenders

5. Recent initiatives in the State of Victoria

6. Qualitative Data: Professional stakeholder views of the efficacy and operation of the Melbourne Magistrates' Court's Assessment and Referral Court

7. Does the ARC List reduce recidivism?

8. Recommendations and Conclusions.

"Criminal Courts and Mental Illness: The emergence of specialist problem-solving courts in Australia analyses the nexus between the mental health system and the criminal justice system. In this ground-breaking research, Dr Chesser seeks to place the development of the mental health court into an overall context within society and frames it as a part of continuing historical change in societal attitudes towards mental illness. This book examines the operation of one such mental health list, the Assessment and Referral Court (ARC) List that operates out of the Magistrates' Court of Victoria. This Court List is the first of its kind in Victoria and was created after national and international models were found to be successful. In the first project of its kind for the ARC list, the author was granted exclusive access to extract court data to determine the effectiveness of the list." -- Publishers website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780455238890

xviii, 201 pages ; 25 cm