Monograph: 'Police Interventions with Persons Affected by Mental Illnesses'

Wood, Jennifer; Swanson, Jeffrey W.; Burris, Scott; Robertson, Allison G.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1781909

Cited by 26 publications

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“…The partnership among local institutions continues to train select officers in handling crises and further educating law enforcement about mental illness to divert individuals and keep officers safe (Compton et al, 2008;Wood et al, 2011). This training, now replicated in more than 2,700 agencies across the country and abroad, includes de-escalation techniques, and provides police departments with resources to which the mentally ill can be directed within the community.…”

Section: The Memphis Model Of Citsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do Crisis Intervention Teams Reduce Arrests and Improve Officer Safety? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Taheri

2014

Criminal Justice Policy Review

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Until the 1950s, state mental health hospitals accommodated the majority of individuals suffering from mental illness. Today, however, following the closing of state mental hospitals, persons with serious mental illness without adequate private care are 3 times more likely to be housed in a jail or prison than in a hospital. The consequences associated with increased contact between the criminal justice system and the mentally ill necessitates a comprehensive strategy that targets improvement in interaction between the criminal justice system and the mentally ill. This article reports on findings of a systematic review and meta-analysis of the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT), a widely adopted program implemented in police departments, in an effort to reduce reliance on incarceration as mental health institutions, and to train officers about mental illness. The findings of this review and meta-analysis reveal null effects of CITs on arrests of persons with mental illness (d = 0.180, p = .495) and on police officer safety (d = −0.301, p = .191). These results do not suggest that CIT programs should be discontinued. However, potential improvements to program implementation and evaluation are discussed.

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Section: The Memphis Model Of Citsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do Crisis Intervention Teams Reduce Arrests and Improve Officer Safety? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Taheri

2014

Criminal Justice Policy Review

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“…This position provides police officers with an opportunity to facilitate change and influence behaviour within that territory for the purpose of improved public health (Wood et al, 2011). Police officers can be understood as providing a guardianship role with a twin focus on behaviours (personal) and environments (social/community) that can be situated within broader thinking about health promotion as well as the management of crime.…”

Section: Community Connections and Asset-based Policingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policing Vulnerability through building community connections

Paterson¹,

Best²

2015

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“…This general principle seems to hold in the minds of contemporary foot patrol officers, mainly because mental health law requires this (Wood, Swanson, Burris & Gilbert, 2011), but there are other variables at play as well. Referrals to hospitals can be time-consuming - and especially complex when substance abuse may be at play (Teplin, 2000) - with perhaps little perceived value in the long term (note our officer’s comment about people being released relatively quickly).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Current approaches to improving police interventions with people experiencing mental illness have centered on improving officers’ knowledge of, and attitudes toward mental health and co-occurring disorders. The most common approach is the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) model, now operating in hundreds of communities across the US (including Philadelphia), which provides training to select officers in order to enhance their ability to de-escalate threatening behaviors and consider non-arrest options during such encounters (for a review see Wood et al, 2011). …”

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Aligning policing and public health promotion: insights from the world of foot patrol

Wood

Taylor

Groff

et al. 2013

Police Practice and Research

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Foot patrol work is rarely described in relation to public health, even though police routinely encounter health risk behaviors and environments. Through a qualitative study of foot patrol policing in violent ‘hotspots’ of Philadelphia, we explore some prospects and challenges associated with bridging security and public health considerations in law enforcement. Noting existing efforts to help advance police officer knowledge of, and attitudes toward health vulnerabilities, we incorporate perspectives from environmental criminology to help advance this bridging agenda. Extending the notion of capable guardianship to understand foot patrol work, we suggest that the way forward for theory, policy and practice is not solely to rely on changing officer culture and behavior, but rather to advance a wider agenda for enhancing collective guardianship, and especially ‘place management’ for harm reduction in the city.

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Monograph: 'Police Interventions with Persons Affected by Mental Illnesses'

Cited by 26 publications

References 96 publications

Do Crisis Intervention Teams Reduce Arrests and Improve Officer Safety? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Do Crisis Intervention Teams Reduce Arrests and Improve Officer Safety? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Policing Vulnerability through building community connections

Aligning policing and public health promotion: insights from the world of foot patrol

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