University at Albany, State University of New York, United States.
Int J Law Psychiatry. 2010 Sep-Oct;33(4):272-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2010.06.010. Epub 2010 Jul 17.
A defining feature of mental health courts (MHCs) is the requirement that enrollees appear periodically for status review hearings before the MHC judge. Although the research base on these specialty courts is growing, MHC appearances have yet to be examined. In the present study, the authors followed more than 400 MHC clients from four courts. We examined the number of court appearances that were mandated versus attended, the number of bench warrants issued, and the proportion of court appearances that were made in-custody versus out-of-custody. Finally, we describe and report on the proportion of clients at each court who had graduated, had been terminated, or who were still in the court one year following enrollment.
心理健康法庭（MHC）的一个显著特点是要求参与者定期出席 MHC 法官的状况审查听证会。尽管有关这些特别法庭的研究基础正在不断扩大，但 MHC 的出庭情况尚未得到审查。在本研究中，作者跟踪了来自四个法庭的 400 多名 MHC 客户。我们检查了强制性出庭和实际出庭的次数、发出的 bench warrant 的数量以及被监禁和非监禁的出庭比例。最后，我们描述并报告了每个法庭中毕业、被终止或在注册后一年仍在法庭的客户比例。
