Horizons of context: Understanding the police decision to arrest people with mental illness

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1582-1587

  Morabito, Melissa Schaefer ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; DECISION MAKING; DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION; HUMAN; MACHIAVELLIANISM; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; POLICE; REVIEW; SOCIAL WELFARE;

EID: 38049023166     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ps.2007.58.12.1582     Document Type: Review

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