Anne Nordberg, Ph.D,http://hdl.handle.net/10106/267392024-03-29T00:49:15Z2024-03-29T00:49:15ZTherapeutic governmentality and biopower in a Canadian mental health courtNordberg, Annehttp://hdl.handle.net/10106/270162020-05-27T19:26:25Z2015-01-01T00:00:00ZTherapeutic governmentality and biopower in a Canadian mental health court
Nordberg, Anne
Mental health courts (MHCs) are a response to the structural violence experienced by people with severe mental illness (SMI) involved in the criminal justice system. My ethnographic research of an MHC in urban Canada serves as the foundation for a discussion of court processes that are an example of biopower. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how strategies for intervention in the name of life and health, truth discourses and forms of self-governance operate among criminal justice-involved individuals with SMI. This study reveals the tensions between the intense forensic gaze and invisibility and between treatment strategies that are beneficial for some
people with SMI yet ultimately coercive and oppressive. The governance of this population is discussed, as well as what happens to people who fail or refuse to self-govern as the court compels them.
2015-01-01T00:00:00ZLiminality and Mental Health Court Diversion: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Offender ExperiencesNordberg, Annehttp://hdl.handle.net/10106/270122020-05-27T14:47:03Z2014-01-01T00:00:00ZLiminality and Mental Health Court Diversion: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Offender Experiences
Nordberg, Anne
Seriously mentally ill people are a 'revolving-door' population in criminal justice systems where they cycle in and out of courts and jails. In response and consonant with the principles of therapeutic jurisprudence, mental health courts (MHCs) have flourished in North America and Western Europe in attempts to divert this population away from jail and provision them with the social services they require to avoid legal contact. Little research has focused on the perspective of the accused in MHCs and there has been little information about which aspects of the court and diversion processes contribute to therapeutic processes in MHCs. This qualitative study reports the experiences of nine successful graduates of a Canadian MHC. The data were analysed according to the principles of interpretative phenomenological analysis. The marginality of the accused and their liminal experiences in mental health court diversion are discussed. Social workers have a role to play in the success of clients in diversion and the results of this study may influence service delivery.
2014-01-01T00:00:00ZRacial Disparities in Drug Court Outcomes: Lessons Learned from the Lived Experiences of White and African American Participants in One Midwestern Drug CourtGallagher, John R.Nordberg, Annehttp://hdl.handle.net/10106/270062020-05-22T15:56:33Z2016-01-01T00:00:00ZRacial Disparities in Drug Court Outcomes: Lessons Learned from the Lived Experiences of White and African American Participants in One Midwestern Drug Court
Gallagher, John R.; Nordberg, Anne
Presentation given at the 22nd Annual Training Conference of the National Association of Drug Court Professionals June 1-4, 2016, Anaheim, California.
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