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Police response to mental health emergencies--barriers to change.
Randolph T. Dupont,Sam Cochran +1 more
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This article is published in Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.The article was published on 2000-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 200 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mental health & Crisis intervention.read more
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A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health: Social Contexts, Theories, and Systems
Teresa L. Scheid,Tony N. Brown +1 more
TL;DR: It is tested whether significant differences in mental illness exist in a matched sample of Mental illness and the criminal justice system.
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The police and mental health.
TL;DR: The authors describe a variety of mobile crisis teams composed of police, mental health professionals, or both and the need for police officers to have training in recognizing mental illness and knowing how to access mental health resources is emphasized.
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Correctional Policy for Offenders with Mental Illness: Creating a New Paradigm for Recidivism Reduction
TL;DR: This article uses research to evaluate the effectiveness of current interventions, and the larger viability of psychiatric, criminological, and social psychological models of the link between mental illness and criminal justice involvement, and proposes three priorities for advancing research, articulating policy, and improving practice.
Gender and mental health.
Sarah Rosenfield,Dawne M. Mouzon +1 more
TL;DR: Men and women experience different kinds of mental health problems as mentioned in this paper, while women exceed men in internalizing disorders such as depression and anxiety, men exhibit more externalizing disorders, such as substance abuse and antisocial behavior, which are problematic for others.
Labeling and Stigma
Bruce G. Link,Jo C. Phelan +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the development of thinking about labeling and stigma over the past half century within the field of the sociology of mental health, and discuss the steps people take to avoid, mitigate, or overcome stigma, drawing in particular on Thoits' theoretical statements about this issue.