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“Drawing on a rich amount of data, Trial by Treatment powerfully demonstrates how court-mandated diversion cannot solve—and can even worsen—the problems of mental illness and substance use disorders. A timely reminder that reforms must get at the root of the problem lest they risk entrenching punishment and inequality."" -- Matthew Clair | author of ""Privilege and Punishment""

""Trial by Treatment is a devastatingly vivid account of the criminal diversion reform movement, situated in the wake of mass incarceration and the implosion of U.S. mental healthcare. Using an incredibly wide array of data on how these proliferating programs function, Stitt reveals how this dispersed alternative approach further entangles vulnerable people within the criminal legal system and entrenches punitiveness in the management of social ills.""--Mona Lynch University of California, Irvine ""Drawing on a rich amount of data, Trial by Treatment powerfully demonstrates how court-mandated diversion cannot solve--and can even worsen--the problems of mental illness and substance use disorders. A timely reminder that reforms must get at the root of the problem lest they risk entrenching punishment and inequality.""--Matthew Clair author of ""Privilege and Punishment""

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Mary Ellen Stitt is an assistant professor in the School of Criminal Justice and faculty affiliate in the Department of Sociology at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is a former American Bar Foundation / National Science Foundation Doctoral Fellow in Law & Inequality and a Fulbright Scholar. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Sociology,Punishment & Society, Social Forces, and Social Problems.

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