Staff reviewed
ASSAULT-ON-LAW-ENFORCEMENT: THE COMPLICATIONS OF CHARGES FOR INDIVIDUALS ON MENTAL HEALTH COURT DOCKETS.
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It documents a structural paradox in diversion eligibility: the offence most likely to be a direct product of psychiatric crisis is also the one whose mandatory minimum most often excludes the defendant from mental health court, with a marked racial gradient. A clinician advising on or working within diversion programmes gains an empirical basis for arguing charge-based eligibility criteria, though this is single-state descriptive work that changes no evaluative method or professional obligation.