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32 Cap. U. L. Rev. 935 (2003-2004)
The Challenges of Cross-Disciplinary Collaborations: Bridging the Mental Health and Criminal Justice Systems

handle is hein.journals/capulr32 and id is 945 raw text is: THE CHALLENGES OF CROSS-DISCIPLINARY
COLLABORATIONS: BRIDGING THE MENTAL HEALTH
AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS'
MARK R. MUNETZ, M.D.* & JENNIFER L.S. TELLER, PH.D.**
I. THE DIFFERENT WORLDS OF THE MENTAL HEALTH AND CRIMINAL
JUSTICE SYSTEMS
The criminal justice and mental health worlds are very different. We
come from different traditions, we speak different languages, and to some
degree we have different values, expectations, and goals. Furthermore,
few of us expected or desired to work in both the criminal justice and
mental health worlds, and few of us have been trained or educated to
understand the other world. A few examples, from the point of view of the
mental health professional, of our differences and similarities are
illustrative.
In the mental health world, we work with patients, clients, or
consumers; in the criminal justice world, we work with perpetrators,
defendants, or offenders. In the mental health world, the institutions are
hospitals and there is great pressure to reduce utilization and to develop
community-based     alternatives; in  the  criminal justice    world, the
institutions are jails and prisons and there is great pressure to reduce
utilization and develop community-based alternatives. In the mental health
system, there is encouragement to use police power such as civil
Copyright © 2004, Mark R. Munetz, M.D. and Jennifer L.S. Teller, Ph.D.
*    Summit County Alcohol, Drug Addiction, and Mental Health Services Board and
Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. Direct correspondence to Mark
Munetz, Chief Clinical Officer, Summit County ADM Board, 100 West Cedar Street, Suite
300, Akron, Ohio 44307, or e-mail mmunetz@neoucom.edu or munetzm@admboard.org.
**   Kent State University, Department of Sociology.
The authors would like to thank Judge Elinore Marsh Stormer, Akron Municipal
Court; Anthony Ingram, Chief Probation Officer; Akron Municipal Court; Becky Brittain,
The Summit County ADM Services Board Forensic Monitor; Penny S. Moore, CSS
vocational services manager; Sonja Beatty, CSS Mental Health Court CLS, Marnie Salupo
Rodriguez, Kent State University research associate; Sue Drexel, Kent State University
research assistant, and Kris Kodsev, Kent State University data enterer for their assistance
with data used in the writing of the paper. The authors would also like to thank and
gratefully acknowledge Patricia A. Griffin, Ph.D., and Henry J. Steadman, Ph.D., from the
National GAINS Center for People with Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System for
their assistance in elaborating the Sequential Intercept Model. Funding provided by the
Ohio Department of Mental Health Grant 03.1176, Christian Ritter, Principal Investigator.

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