Active Research                         

SBHLI members conduct research with a wide range of community partners. Some active projects include: 

• Financial education for women involved in the criminal legal system
• Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) and Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD)
• Intimate partner violence and discretionary case processing ​
• Database development for data sharing among Alabama mental health courts
• Competency to proceed evaluation and restoration ​
• Reliability, validity, and utility of tele-forensic assessments

Selected Publications

• ​Cox, J., Meaux, L. T., Kois, L. E., Jensen, C. (in press). Now see this? Forensic evaluator opinions regarding direct observation when evaluating competency to proceed. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice
• Kois, L. E., Cox, J. M., &  Peck, A. T. (2020). Forensic e-mental health: Review, research priorities, and policy directions. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/law0000293
• Dewey, S., Zare, B., Connolly, C., Epler, R. & Bratton, R. 2019. Outlaw women: Prison, violence, and poverty in the American West. New York: New York University Press.​
• Johnson, K., Gilbert, L., Hunt, T., Wu, E., Metsch, L., Goddard-Eckrich, D., . . . El-Bassel, N. (2018). The effectiveness of a group-based computerized HIV/STI prevention intervention for black women who use drugs in the criminal justice system: Study protocol for E-WORTH (Empowering African-American Women on the Road to Health), a Hybrid Type 1 randomized controlled trial. Trials, 19(1). doi:10.1186/s13063-018-2792-3