2012
DOI: 10.1017/s1474746412000188
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Criminal Justice Diversion and Liaison Services: A Path to Success?

Abstract: The original aim of these services appeared straightforward: 'that mentally disordered offenders needing care and treatment should receive it from the health and personal social services rather than in custodial care' (Department of Health and Home Office, 1992: 7). However, this was not a simple or straightforward area. Service users could include those with mental illness, learning disability, personality disorder, substance misuse and more vague 'mental health problems'. Individual clients could be acutely … Show more

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“…Pre-arrest 'diversion' was recognised as an option by police officers -there may be no indication for arrest, and they did not want to arrest individuals unnecessarily -but gaps in health services could result in inappropriate detention in police cells, reminiscent of the so-called 'mercy booking' reported in the USA (Watson et al, 2008). Many services are already in place across the UK providing health expertise into the criminal justice system, but these have been piecemeal and tend to focus on events after the individual has been detained (Dyer, 2013).…”
Section: The Problemmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Pre-arrest 'diversion' was recognised as an option by police officers -there may be no indication for arrest, and they did not want to arrest individuals unnecessarily -but gaps in health services could result in inappropriate detention in police cells, reminiscent of the so-called 'mercy booking' reported in the USA (Watson et al, 2008). Many services are already in place across the UK providing health expertise into the criminal justice system, but these have been piecemeal and tend to focus on events after the individual has been detained (Dyer, 2013).…”
Section: The Problemmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The challenges facing the NE IOM-MH service are not new. In particular, the issue around wider mental health service cooperation ‒ the ‘diversion to what?’ question ‒ has been well documented, but is yet to be resolved (James, 2010; Dyer, 2012; Scott et al ., 2013; Fengea et al ., 2014). Despite these challenges, overall findings described a very positive picture.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, evidence (both from this project and wider research, for example Williams, 2009;Lennox et al, 2010Lennox et al, , 2012 points to the contrary, organisations continue to work in silos; or where there is evidence of inter-agency working, episodes of care during contact with the criminal justice system are themselves treated as silos with minimal if any links with the next part of the pathway. For example, the provision of healthcare at police stations, issues around custody diversion and support for offenders with mental health problems at court and prison healthcare are in the main treated as discrete periods within which care must be provided, issues considered and problems resolved, but between which there are few links made (Peay, 2007(Peay, , 2010Dyer, 2012).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, issues around prisoner health are substantial, and every stage of the offender health pathway is problematic as prisoners tend to go from a state of poor health in the community, to limited and patchy custody diversion schemes (Dyer, 2012), to limited healthcare in prisons, to problematic prison discharge planning, and finally to poor health when released back into the community.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%