Abstract
Much of the recent public discourse on contemporary policing has focused on diverting mental health-related calls for service, as well as funding, away from police in order to adopt more holistic, ‘upstream’ approaches. In the final chapter of this book, we shift the focus away from the present towards envisioning possibilities for the future. To do so, we draw on insights gleaned from the data presented throughout this book as well as existing literature to offer policy and practice solutions for reducing the ‘footprint’ of policing in the lives of people with mental illness.
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Alcohol, Drugs, Gambling, Mental Health, Suicide, Physical Health, Self-Harm, Criminal Involvement, Crime victimization, Physical Violence, Emotional Violence, Sexual Violence, Elderly Abuse, Supervision, Basic Needs, Missing School, Parenting, Housing, Poverty, Negative Peers, Antisocial/Negative Behavior, Unemployment, Missing/Runaway, Threat to Public Safety, Gangs, and Social Environment (Sanders and Langan, 2019).
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Huey, L., Schulenberg, J.L., Koziarski, J. (2022). At the Crossroads. In: Policing Mental Health. SpringerBriefs in Criminology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94313-4_5
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