In Week 3, you will be provided with four topics involving the courts and mental health. You will have two assignments, a Discussion Board (DB) and an Individual Project (IP).

Like in a criminal justice professional conference seminar, you will pick the conferences that you wish to attend. You will select 1 of the 4 topics for your IP. Note that you will use 1 of the remaining 3 for your DB selection. The IP may not be the same topic as the DB topic you select. You can select the topics for either assignment in any order (i.e., the topic for the IP may be selected first or the DB topic may be selected first, as long as they are not the same topics for the assignments).

Selecting one of the four topics you will be required to submit a 600-850 word minimum for your IP. Your paper should be an analytical essay, a persuasive/argumentative essay, or a reflective essay. Please ensure that your references are formatted in APA format and that each reference is cited at least one time in the text of your paper in proper APA citation format. The word count for your paper will not include the references or the title page. You are encouraged to do research on the topic for other sources.

The following topics come from the reading assignments for this week and are all located in the AIU online Library:

Topic 1: Courting Compliance: The Role of Case Managers in Mental Health Courts

Castellano, U. (2011). Courting compliance: Case managers as "double agents'" in the mental health court. Law and Social Inquiry, 36(2), 484-451. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23011900

Topic 2: Oregon's Criminal Justice System to Be Examined Over Treatment of Mentally Ill People

Wilson, C. (2019, June 10). Oregon's criminal justice system to be examined over treatment of mentally ill people. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2019/06/10/731385501/oregons-criminal-justice-system-to-be-examined-over-treatment-of-mentally-ill-pe

Topic 3: Gender Matters in the Insanity Defense

Breheney, C., Groscup, J., & Galietta, M. (2007). Gender matters in the insanity defense. Law and Psychology Review, 31, 93-123. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2007-15282-005

Topic 4: From Courtroom to Clinic: Legal Cases That Changed Mental Health Treatment

Fentiman, L. C. (2020). From courtroom to clinic: Legal cases that changed mental health treatment. Journal of Legal Medicine, 40(1), 131-133. https://doi.org/10.1080/01947648.2020.1731322

use APA in-text citation from at least five scholarly sources and choose topic 3