Policing mental illness: Police use of section 136 – Perspectives from police and mental-health nurses
(2021)
Journal Article
Wondemaghen, M. (2021). Policing mental illness: Police use of section 136 – Perspectives from police and mental-health nurses. Medicine, Science and the Law, 61(4), 266-274. https://doi.org/10.1177/0025802421993363
Ideological shifts in mental health-care policy such as deinstitutionalisation have meant police have had to make decisions about the care of persons with a mental-health crisis. This study examines how police in five English counties respond to cris... Read More about Policing mental illness: Police use of section 136 – Perspectives from police and mental-health nurses.