Jeffrey Draine, MSW, PhD
Associate ProfessorBio | Research | Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Research - Current Projects
Center for Mental Health Services and Criminal Justice Research.
The Center for Mental Health Services & Criminal Justice Research is dedicated to conducting innovative research that will improve the ways in which the mental health and criminal justice systems respond to the needs of persons with mental illness and inform the policies that are intended to affect these responses.
One of the central goals of the Center is to bring together a multidisciplinary team of researchers to conduct research on encounters with the criminal justice system by persons with mental illness, and the services and interventions that respond to these individuals. The Center's research environment is "borderless." Researchers working on Center-sponsored research projects are drawn from institutions located around the country.
The Center's research agenda focuses on two areas: Precursors to the criminal encounter centers on the individual with mental illness and how that person comes to the attention of the criminal justice system and Processing dynamics explores how the criminal justice system responds to the individual's mental illness as the person moves through the criminal justice continuum. Research developed under the Center's auspices uses a multi-system-disciplinary-actor approach.
Staff: Jeffrey Draine, Amy Blank, Phyllis Solomon
Sites: Rutgers, U-Mass, Penn
Related Publications:
2002 Wolff N, Draine J: The dynamics of social capital of prisoners and community reentry: Ties that bind? Public Health Dimensions fo Reentry: Addressing the health needs and risks of returning prisoners and their families. Urban Institute: Washington DC.