Police Interactions with the Mentally Ill: May be we Should Ask Different Questions

Authors: Katherine T* and Sara R

DOI: 10.23880/ijfsc-16000119

Volume 2, Issue 1

Abstract

In 1955, the US made the move to deinstitutionalize thousands of severely mentally ill persons. President Jimmy Carter’s commission on mental health (1978) indicated that "the objective of maintaining the greatest degree of freedom, self-determination, autonomy, dignity, and integrity of body, mind, and spirit for the individual while he or she participates in treatment or receives services."

Keywords: Interactions; deinstitutionalize

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