OBJECTIVE Our objective was to study the outcomes experienced by 2 communities after implementing pretrial diversion of offenders with mental illness. METHOD The same method of diversion was implemented in a predominately urban and a predominantly rural county. We collected retrospective clinical and offence data from pretrial diversion assessments conducted in court. As well, we measured out...

The disruptive effect of cholinergic blockade was tested under conditions in which either the working memory or the spatial mapping requirements of the behavioral task were emphasized. In Experiment 1, 13 rats were trained in an eight-arm radial water maze to asymptotic performance. When delays of 5, 10, 20, and 40 min were inserted between Choice 4 and Choice 5, incidence of errors in Choices ...

We introduce contingency fees into the Reinganum and Wilde (1986) signaling model of litigation. The effect of contingency fees on settlement depends upon the details of the contingency fee contract and the nature of the informational asymmetry assumed in the model. Introducing bifurcated fee contracts where the contingency percentage is higher at trial changes the selection of disputes at tria...

One in five incarcerated people in the United States are in jail awaiting trial, and many are detained due to an inability to pay relatively small amounts of money. This paper uses a natural experiment to analyze whether incarceration during the pretrial period affects case outcomes. In Philadelphia, defendants randomly receive bail magistrates who differ widely in their propensity to set bail ...

BACKGROUND Opioid substitution treatment (OST) is not uniformly provided in all prisons as recommended by international guidelines. The Swiss prison of Champ-Dollon in Geneva is an exception, where OST has been available for the last 20 years. The aims of this study were to describe the OST programme in this pretrial prison setting, and the patients involved. METHODS We reviewed health record...