Core requirements of a best practise model for police encounters involving people experiencing mental illness in Australia: A Victorian perspective

Policing and the Mentally Ill: International Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 121-136

  Thomas, Stuart ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science   (Australia)

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EID: 84897642082     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/b14853-12     Document Type: Chapter

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