Lexington Books
Pages: 130
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Trim: 6⅜ x 9
978-1-7936-0172-8 • Hardback • November 2020 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-7936-0174-2 • Paperback • May 2022 • $41.99 • (£35.00)
978-1-7936-0173-5 • eBook • November 2020 • $39.50 • (£30.00)
Kayla G. Jachimowski is assistant professor of criminology, law, and society at Saint Vincent College.
Jonathon A. Cooper is associate professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Introduction
Part 1: Policing and Mental Health Calls for Service
Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Problem
Chapter 2: Understanding Mental Health: A Brief History American Practice
Chapter 3: Mental Health’s Implications for Policing
Part 2: State of Policing and Mental Health Calls for Service
Chapter 4: Police Training - General Patterns Related to CIT
Chapter 5: Police Training - A More Detailed Look
Chapter 6: Moving Forward: Theory and Practice
Appendix A: How We Gathered our Data
Appendix B: Survey Instruments
Appendix C: Vignette Universe
References
About the Authors
Index
Divided into two parts, this book looks at how crisis intervention training (CIT) affects police officers’ responses to mental health calls for service. Part 1 provides a historical overview of mental health in the US, explaining how psychiatric deinstitutionalization and, concomitantly, the criminalization of people with mental illness became a policing problem.... Part 2 focuses on how, in their research, the authors found that CIT did not significantly affect how duly sworn law enforcement officers and police academy cadets hypothetically responded to mental health calls for service. Undeterred by their findings, the authors conclude that CIT can nonetheless have an idiosyncratic impact on individual officers, and they encourage future research in this direction. Recommended.
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