Note
Cover title.
"Prepared for CMHA BC Division’s Mental Health Diversion Project"--Cover.
"March 31, 2008"--Cover.
"*This review was completed as part of a research
policy practicum for the Research in Addictions and
Mental Health Policy and Services (RAMHPS) Program"--Cover.
"This is one of a series of documents produced by the Mental Health Diversion Project of CMHA BC Division funded by the Law Foundation of British Columbia and BC Mental Health and Addiction Services, an agency of the Provincial Health Services Authority."--Page 2.
Author affiliated with:
School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University.
Summary
"The best practices described below apply to adults with mental disorders who are in conflict with the law and whose needs may be more appropriately met by mental health and social support services. This review has largely excluded issues relating specifically to adolescents and children. For this review, the following broad definition of ‘mental disorder’ has been adopted: "a clinically significant behavioural or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual and that is associated with present distress or disability or with significantly increased risk of suffering, pain, disability, or an important loss of freedom" (American Psychiatric Association, 2000b)."--Scope.
Contents
1. Introduction --
1.1. Background --
1.2. Scope --
1.3. Definition of ‘diversion’ --
1.4. Trends and needs --
1.5. Description of the diversion continuum --
2. A review of best practices across the diversion continuum --
2.1. Purpose --
2.2. Methods --
2.3. Definition of ‘best practice’ --
2.4. Results --
2.4.1. Cross-continuum diversion strategies --
2.4.2. Level 1: Community-based diversion --
2.4.3. Level 2: Police-based diversion --
2.4.4. Level 3: Pre-trial diversion --
2.4.5. Level 4: Court-based diversion --
2.4.6. Level 5: Community corrections diversion --
2.4.7. Level 6: Custodial corrections diversion --
3. Key findings.