Objective: This study examined the risk of incarceration among cohorts of veterans treated in
the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Connecticut Healthcare System. Incarceration rates …

People are more than their brains. Legal and social traditions have long held people
accountable for their behavior under the presumption that most behavior is intentional and the …

Mental health courts have quickly proliferated in the United States and represent an attempt
to expand legal leverage and enhanced treatment access to select persons with severe …

Psychologists are frequently consulted by the courts to provide forensic evaluations in a
variety of family court proceedings. As part of their evaluations, psychologists often use …

In the landmark case Barefoot v. Estelle (1983), the United States Supreme Court held that
behavioral scientists are not “incompetent to predict with an acceptable degree of reliability …

This article evaluated factors related to failure to maintain conditional release in a large
sample (N= 363) of individuals who were found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI) and …

Detailed research on treatment and risk management approaches with not guilty by reason
of insanity acquittees (NGRI) during their conditional release is needed as states …

There have been many advancements in the pharmacologic treatment of schizophrenia;
however, negative symptoms and cognitive impairment remain an intractable part of this illness. …

… Erickson is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania Law School, 3400 Chestnut St.,
Philadelphia, PA 19104 (email: steven… Erickson is also with the Department of Psychiatry, …

There is growing concern that people with schizophrenia and other severe mental illnesses
are increasingly at risk for unnecessary criminal justice system (CJS) involvement. There has …