Objective: There is widespread belief that people with mental disorders are overrepresented
in police encounters. The prevalence of such interactions is used as evidence of extensive …

Background There are three commonly used mental health interventions associated with
policing: liaison and diversion, street triage and having specialist staff embedded in police …

With chapters written by leading scholars and researchers, the third edition of A Handbook
for the Study of Mental Health provides an updated, comprehensive review of the sociology …

Acute services for mental health crises are very important to service users and their
supporters, and consume a substantial share of mental health resources in many countries …

Police departments are increasingly becoming the primary entity for managing incidents
involving persons with mental illness, thereby leading to calls for additional research …

As police officers are often the first responders to mental health crises, a number of
approaches have emerged to support skilled police crisis responses. One such approach is …

Background People use healthy and unhealthy coping strategies to reduce distress.
Understanding the relationship between healthy and unhealthy coping strategies and …

Objective To identify existing evidence on interagency collaboration between law
enforcement, emergency services, statutory services and third sector agencies regarding …

Objectives The police-mental health co-response model has garnered support from both
police and healthcare workers. It is praised for its ability to enhance crisis de-escalation …

Using the current empirical landscape of police responses to people in mental health crisis
as a backdrop, this methods paper makes an argument for the central role of collaborative …