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Mental health and the criminal justice system

• Working together : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and wellbeing principles and practice
  edited by Nola Purdie, Pat Dudgeon and Roz Walker, Department of Health and Ageing. 2010
• People with cognitive and mental health impairments in the criminal justice system : an overview
  NSW Law Reform Commission, NSW Law Reform Commission. 2010
• People with cognitive and mental health impairments in the criminal justice system : criminal responsibility and consequences
  NSW Law Reform Commission, NSW Law Reform Commission. 2010
• People with cognitive and mental health impairments in the criminal justice system : diversion
  NSW Law Reform Commission, NSW Law Reform Commission. 2010
• The mental health of Australians 2 : report on the 2007 National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing
  Tim Slade ... [et al.], Department of Health and Ageing. 2009
• Law enforcement responses to people with mental illnesses : a guide to research-informed policy and practice
  Melissa Reuland, Matthew Schwarzfeld and Laura Draper, Council of State Governments Justice Center. 2009
• Cognitive impairment, legal need and access to justice
  Abigail Gray, Suzie Forell and Sophie Clarke, Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales. 2009  
• Preventing crime and promoting rights for Indigenous young people with cognitive disabilities and mental health issues
  Australian Human Rights Commission, Sydney : Australian Human Rights Commission. 2008
• Supporting people with an intellectual disability in the criminal justice system : progress report
  NSW Ombudsman, Sydney : NSW Ombudsman. 2008
• Enabling justice : a report on problems and solutions in relation to diversion of alleged offenders with intellectual disability from the New South Wales local courts system
  edited by Linda Steele, Sydney : Intellectual Disability Rights Service. 2008
• Diverting mentally disordered offenders in the NSW Local Court
  Tom Gotsis and Hugh Donnelly, Sydney : Judicial Commission of New South Wales. 2008
• Mental illness and the criminal justice system (doc 186kB)
  Beyond Bars fact sheet, 2007
• The psychosocial needs of NSW court defendants (PDF 337kB)
  Craig Jones and Sandra Crawford, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, 2007
• "Why people with a mental illness are over-represented in the criminal justice system." (PDF 42kB)
  Corinne Henderson, Mental Health Coordinating Council, 2006
• Mental illness in the community : the role of police (PDF 614kB)
  Michelle Sced, Australian Centre for Policing Research, 2006
• A national approach to mental health : from crisis to community : final report
  Senate Select Committee on Mental Health, 2006
• A national approach to mental health : from crisis to community : first report
  Senate Select Committee on Mental Health, 2006
• Mental illness among New South Wales prisoners (PDF 637kB)
  Tony Butler and Stephen Allnutt. NSW Corrections Health Service, 2003
• Mental illness and the criminal justice system
  Susan Henderson. Mental Health Co-ordinating Council, 2003
• Mental health and criminal justice : a review of the relationship between mental disorders and offending behaviours and on the management of mentally abnormal offenders in the health and criminal justice services
  Paul E Mullen, 2001
• Mental health and the criminal justice system (PDF 169kB)
  Karen Freeman, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, 1998
• Mental health and criminal justice 
  Dominique Saunders, 1993

Recent publications

• Police interviews with vulnerable adult suspects
  13 July 2011
• Court-based mental health diversion programs
  03 June 2011
• Mental health, abuse, drug use and crime: does gender matter?
  11 November 2009
• Mental disorders and incarceration history
  28 January 2009
• Schizophrenia and offending: area of residence and the impact of social disorganisation and urbanicity
  04 November 2008
• The identification of mental disorders in the criminal justice system
  04 March 2007
• Mental health and drug dependency amongst police detainees
  19 July 2005
• Risk assessment by mental health professionals and the prevention of future violent behaviour
  04 July 2004
• Mental disorder and homicide in Australia
  04 November 1999
• Intellectual disability and criminal victimisation
  04 September 1996

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