Police response to mental health calls for service : gatekeepers and street corner psychiatrists / Kayla G. Jachimowski and Jonathon A. Cooper.

"This book explores the impact that training has on officer decision-making during calls for service where an individual has a mental health disorder, from both an empirical and historical perspective"--

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Policing perspectives and challenges in the twenty-first century.
Main Authors: Jachimowski, Kayla G. (Author)
Cooper, Jonathon A., 1982- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2021]
Series:Policing perspectives and challenges in the twenty-first century.
Subjects:
Police services for the mentally ill.
Police training.
Mentally ill offenders.
Physical Description:vii, 121 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • An introduction to the problem
  • Understanding mental health: A brief history of American practice
  • Mental health's implications for policing
  • State of policing and mental health calls for service
  • Police training
  • general patterns related to CIT
  • Police training
  • a more detailed look
  • Moving forward: theory and practice.