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JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Volume -, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/10439862231189415
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diversion; systems theory; framework; deinstitutionalization
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There is a lack of normative theory for diverting justice-involved individuals with mental illness at the intersection of criminal justice and health care systems. This paper proposes a potential systems theory of diversion that explains the overlapping boundaries within and between these systems. The theoretical disconnect may fail to consider the impact of criminal justice diversion on the health care system. A unified systems theory of diversion is proposed to improve evaluation, comparability, sustainability, resource allocation, and outcomes of diversion programs.
There is a distinct lack of a normative theory for diversion of justice-involved individuals with mental illness at the intersection of the criminal justice and health care systems. The nexus where the criminal justice and health care systems are supposed to connect during diversion is not conceptually framed in a measurable way. The paper proposes a potential systems theory of diversion that explicates the overlapping boundaries within and between the criminal justice and health care systems. From a systems perspective, diversion is operationalized differently depending on the entry of an individual with justice involvement and mental illness into one of the systems. The criminal justice and health care systems have multiple levels (micro-, meso-, and macro-), but individuals enter both systems at the respective systems intersection of the micro- and meso-levels. The theoretical disconnect may fail to consider the impact of criminal justice diversion on the health care system. We propose a unified systems theory of diversion to improve evaluation, comparability, sustainability, resource allocation, and outcomes of diversion programs.
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