title: Mental health, criminal justice and culture: some ways forward?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This paper aims to offer an overview of the mental health needs of Indigenous men and women in the criminal justice system and how Indigenous cultural perspectives on mental health might influence forensic mental health service provision.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is a need for both mental health and criminal justice agencies to collaborate more closely in developing new models of service provision that incorporate Indigenous perspectives on social and emotional wellbeing, recognize culturally specific mental health risk and protective factors in relation to prevention, early intervention and treatment, and take advantage of the opportunities for treatment that arise in the context of criminal justice system intervention.
authors.affiliation: Melbourne University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
authors.forename: Robin
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Day
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D001315:Australia; D003415:Crime; D003416:Criminal Law / Q000639:trends*; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006303:Health Services, Indigenous; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D011287:Prejudice; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000523:psychology