The Canadian Research Chair in Mental Health and Access to Justice

aims to develop and advance research by and for people with lived experience of mental health forensic treatment ("PETJSM"). While research in the field has focused primarily on forensic knowledge, our groundbreaking research program proposes to shift this paradigm in favour of a rights-based approach to access to justice that highlights power relations, the effects of the judicial process, and the under-documented knowledge of PETJSM.