Department of Psychiatry faculty-authored paper selected for Editor's Choice of Psychiatric Services

An article co-authored by faculty in the Department of Psychiatry was selected for inclusion in the Psychiatric Services Editor's Choice curated collection, entitled "Community Correctional Care: Treating Justice-Involved Individuals Outside of Jail and Prison.”

In their paper, titled “Approaching Jail Diversion and Prevention of Criminal Legal System Involvement Simultaneously,” Drs. Natalie Bonfine, Stacey Barrenger and Mark Munetz (professor and chair emeritus) wrote about the need— and the opportunity — for the community-based behavioral health services system to lead collaborative efforts to address social drivers of health and other risk factors that put people with serious mental illness at risk of being involved in the criminal legal system. Such work requires multiple systems working together to prevent people with serious mental illness from encountering the criminal legal system or prevent those with previous criminal legal involvement returning to the criminal legal system. Ultimately, the shift towards prevention by meeting the multiple and complex health and social needs of people with serious mental illness in the community can improve both health and justice outcomes. 

Read “Approaching Jail Diversion and Prevention of Criminal Legal System Involvement Simultaneously.”