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Article: Assessing police attitudes toward mental illness.
- Article from:
- Canadian Journal of Police and Security Services
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
- Author:
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ARTICLE REVIEWED:
Cotton, D. (2004). The attitudes of Canadian police officers toward the mentally ill. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 27, 135-146.
Increasingly in our society, citizens with mental illness are deinstitutionalized and placed in the care of the community. This trend is often due to treatment program cutbacks, and more strict criteria for commitment to psychiatric facilities. As a result of this, police officers are becoming frontline managers of mental illness in our communities. It may be argued that mentally ill persons are more likely to come in contact with police than are other citizens, both as offenders and victims of ...