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Article: Police contact with mental illness in mid-sized city. (Inner City Health).
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- Community Action
- Article date:
- October 14, 2002
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Trends in police contact with persons with serious mental illness in a mid-size Canadian city was the subject of a study reported by Lisa Heslop, Consortium for Applied Research and Evaluation in Mental Health, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario. Due to provincial decisions to close or downsize psychiatric hospitals, increasing numbers of patients with serious mental illness are being discharged to community care. The study of patterns ...