Correlates of Mental Health Court Graduation Across Seven Texas Programmes: What Matters?

These findings help clarify the mixed prior literature surrounding the impact of race on graduation from mental health courts at least in these seven courts in Texas. Findings underscore the importance of education, employment and housing on success in mental health courts even though some prior studies do not find these factors to be associated with graduation. Texas programmes should work to improve the status of participants in these areas as they seem particularly salient in this context. Future research should be done to understand if findings would generalise outside of Texas.