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Victor Ottati

Researcher at Loyola University Chicago

Publications -  61
Citations -  2827

Victor Ottati is an academic researcher from Loyola University Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Mental illness. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 60 publications receiving 2648 citations. Previous affiliations of Victor Ottati include Stony Brook University & Purdue University.

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Improving police response to persons with mental illness: a multi-level conceptualization of CIT.

TL;DR: A conceptual model of police response to persons with mental illness is presented that accounts for officer, organizational, mental health system and community level factors likely to influence implementation and effectiveness of CIT and other approaches.
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The Cognitive and Affective Bases of Political Tolerance Judgments

TL;DR: Kuklinski et al. as mentioned in this paper presented a survey of political science departments in the United States, including the University of Illinois, University of Kentucky, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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Outcomes of police contacts with persons with mental illness: the impact of CIT.

TL;DR: Moderator analysis indicates that CIT had its biggest effect on increasing direction to services and decreasing "contact only" among officers who have a positive view of mental health services and who know a person with mental illness in their personal life.
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Crisis Intervention Teams and People With Mental Illness: Exploring the Factors That Influence the Use of Force

TL;DR: This investigation seeks to fill the gap in the literature by exploring the factors that influence use of force in encounters involving people with mental illness and evaluating whether CIT can reduce the likelihood of its use.
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Police Officers' Attitudes Toward and Decisions About Persons With Mental Illness

TL;DR: Police officers viewed persons with schizophrenia as being less responsible for their situation, more worthy of help, and more dangerous than persons for whom no mental illness information was provided.