This article examines the types of stigmatizing language and frames present in news reports about persons with mental illness killed by police. A sample of 301 online news reports was content analyzed, of which 132 re...
Mental Illness, Police Power Interventions, and the Expressive Functions of Punishmentcriminal punishmentexpressive functionsmental illnessThe state exercises coercive force under the police power to protect the public order, security, and justice. When individuals who manifest significant psychological ...
(2010). The police and people with mental illness: New approaches to a longstanding problem. Journal of Police Crisis Negotiations, 10, 3-14.Lurigio, A. J., & Watson, A. C. (2010). The police and people with mental illness: New approaches to a longstanding problem. Journal of Police...
campus policeCampus police officers are often among the initial contacts for behavioral incidents involving people with mental illness. Their training and access to resources influence decisions to direct the individual to support services and/or through campus disciplinary processes and/or the criminal ...
By dismantling the mental health system, we have turned mental illness from a medical illness into a police matter and finally into homelessness. Our homeless populations are mostly individuals with untreated mental illness or substance abusers who have nowhere to go. The general population wants the...
Police attitudes toward mental illness and psychiatric patients in Israel. J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 1998; 26(4):625-630.Kimhi R et al.Police attitudes... R Kimhi,Y Barak,J Gutman,... - 《Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine》 被引量: 65发表: 1999年 Racial differences in stigmatizing ...
A significant portion of police work involves contact with persons who have mental illness. This study examined how knowledge that a person has a mental illness influences police officers' perceptions, attitudes, and responses. A total of 382 police officers who were taking a variety of in-service...
Questionnaires were sent to all operational officers in a regional police service regarding their level of knowledge about and attitudes towards, mental illness. It was widely accepted by police officers that mental illness occurred commonly, can be effectively treated in the community and that the ma...
This survey study assesses the prevalence of mental illness and mental health care use among police officers at a large, urban police department in the US.
The article reports on the issues of police safety and mental illness in the U.S. It cites a study conducted by Treatment Advocacy Center that police services related to persons with psychiatric crisis are major consumer of police resources. It mentions a nationwide online survey of senior law ...