… On its website, the Memphis Police Department describes CIT as a community partnership
working with mental health consumers and family members.It adds that the goals of CIT …

Protection orders are widely used legal interventions intended to reduce the risk of future harm
by one person considered to be a threat to another. However, there has been controversy …

Objective: In response to the large-scale involvement of people with mental disorders in the
criminal justice system, many communities have created specialized mental health courts in …

… Bailey,93 the trial judge considered pyromania as a mitigating factor in sentencing after the
defendant pleaded guilty to a series of arsons. The judge conducted his own research into …

OBJECTIVE: This study assessed relationships between homelessness, mental disorder,
and incarceration. METHODS: Using archival databases that included all 12,934 individuals …

OBJECTIVES: A variety of tools are being used as leverage to improve adherence to psychiatric
treatment in the community. This study is the first to obtain data on the frequency with …

… McNiel DE, Binder RL: The relationship between acute psychiatric symptoms, diagnosis,
and short-term risk of violence. Hospital and Community Psychiatry 45:133-137 1994Abstract, …

… The VSC received support as an indicator of violence risk in a new sample of hospitalized
patients (McNiel & Binder, 1994a). Another approach is structured professional judgment, in …

The authors investigated the relationship between community violence and violence in the
hospital for patients hospitalized through emergency civil commitment. The medical charts of …

Objective: Previous research on violence and mental disorder has typically focused on the
relationship between diagnosis and risk of violence or between symptoms within a particular …