About This Report
This report presents the results from a randomized trial testing the effectiveness of Neighborhood Court, a restorative justice diversion program run by the District Attorney’s Office in San Francisco, California...
Executive Summary
In recent years, a growing number of prosecutors have established pretrial diversion programs, either pre-filing—before charges are filed with the court—or post-filing—after the court process begins but before a...
This Executive Summary provides information on what policymakers need to know about ensuring people leaving prison and jail receive the mental health care, substance use treatment, and health care coverage they need.
The United States has among the highest recidivism rates globally, with at least 1 in 4 rearrested within the same year of their initial charge. Many of these individuals are significantly impacted by poverty, mental illness, and substance...
Peer recovery specialist (PRS) support has been used to varying degrees in community substance use and mental health treatment for a number of years. Although there has been some evidence of positive PRS impacts on...
INTRODUCTION:
Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is highly commorbid among individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD). PTSD among people with OUD is associated with severe opioid use, depression, and suicidality. Tanzania has seen a...
Objectives: Many agencies use risk assessment instruments to guide decisions about pretrial detention, postconviction incarceration, and release from custody. Although some policymakers believe that these tools might reduce...
Mental health courts (MHCs) were developed to address the overrepresentation of adults with mental illnesses in the U.S. criminal justice system through diversion into community-based treatment. Research on MHCs has...
The association between substance use and crime is very common, but complex. Several countries have found strategies to face drug abuse and criminality that may exist associated to it, seeking to reduce overcrowded prisons and to promote...
ABSTRACT.
This paper investigates the impacts of incarceration on criminal behavior and labor market activity using new data from Harris County, Texas.The research design exploits exogenous variation in incarceration due to defendants’...
