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Conclusion

From: The Death of a Butterfly

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Chapter 5 summarizes what we should learn from the existence of mental health courts, and explains how the emergence of mental health courts has transformed the criminal justice landscape for mentally disordered accused.

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Richard D. Schneider

Hon. Richard D. Schneider, PhD, LLM, CPsych, is a justice of the Ontario Court of Justice, a deputy judge of the Territorial Court of the Yukon, chair of the Ontario Review Board, and an alternate chair of the Nunavut Review Board. He is also an adjunct professor in the faculties of law and medicine at the University of Toronto. Prior to his appointment to the bench, Justice Schneider was a criminal defence lawyer, a clinical psychologist, and counsel to the Ontario Review Board. He has published extensively in the area of mental disorder and the law.