{"title":"From the Editor-in-Chief","authors":"Richard G. Greenleaf","doi":"10.1080/15332586.2010.481896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15332586.2010.481896","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":89175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of police crisis negotiations : an international journal","volume":"11 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15332586.2010.481896","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59872998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Police and People with Mental Illness: New Approaches to a Longstanding Problem","authors":"A. Lurigio, A. Watson","doi":"10.1080/15332586.2010.481895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15332586.2010.481895","url":null,"abstract":"During the past four decades, fundamental changes in mental health and law enforcement policies have brought criminal justice professionals into increasing contact with people with serious mental illness (PSMI). This contact occurs at every stage of the criminal justice process. The police, who are the gatekeepers of the criminal justice system, interact frequently with PSMI. The current article introduces this special issue of the Journal of Police Crisis Negotiations, which is devoted to the study of the police and PSMI. Although many of the articles discuss the use of Crisis Intervention Teams, which are the most common law enforcement strategy for responding to calls that involve individuals in crisis, the volume addresses many other critical concerns that pertain to police interactions with special or vulnerable populations. Containing 17 original articles on the topic, this collection is one of the most comprehensive and varied of its kind to date.","PeriodicalId":89175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of police crisis negotiations : an international journal","volume":"10 1","pages":"14 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15332586.2010.481895","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59872989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Street-Level Psychiatry—A Psychiatrist's Role with the Albuquerque Police Department's Crisis Outreach and Support Team","authors":"Nils A. Rosenbaum","doi":"10.1080/15332581003757040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15332581003757040","url":null,"abstract":"A growing number of police departments have civilian units that aid police in responding to persons with mental illnesses. A unique program in Albuquerque, New Mexico, employs a medical doctor. This article explains Albuquerque's model, the Crisis Outreach And Support Team (COAST), and the role of their physician. The article explores the utility of having a doctor as part of a civilian crisis unit and can act as a reference for other municipalities considering a similar model.","PeriodicalId":89175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of police crisis negotiations : an international journal","volume":"34 1 1","pages":"175 - 181"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15332581003757040","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59872311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Youth Crisis Intervention Teams (CITs): A Response to the Fragmentation of the Educational, Mental Health, and Juvenile Justice Systems","authors":"Anabelle V. Doulas, A. Lurigio","doi":"10.1080/15332586.2010.481893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15332586.2010.481893","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses one of the newest, specialized law enforcement programs in the United States: Crisis Intervention Teams (CITs) for youths with mental illness. Adapted from adult CIT models, youth CITs are designed to divert and refer for services adolescents with suspected psychiatric disorders, who have a higher prevalence of psychiatric and substance-use disorders (and their co-occurrence), compared with youths who have no mental health problems. As we suggest in the current article, the failure of the school, mental health, and juvenile justice systems to provide seriously distressed youths with coordinated and comprehensive assessment and treatment services has increased the likelihood that they will encounter the police and further penetrate the juvenile and adult criminal justice systems. We provide an early look at three programs in diverse geographic areas: Denver, Chicago, and San Antonio. We conclude with observations regarding the need for such programs as well as the challenges that police departments are likely to face in the implementation and continuation of such initiatives.","PeriodicalId":89175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of police crisis negotiations : an international journal","volume":"10 1","pages":"241 - 263"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15332586.2010.481893","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59872943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crisis Intervention Teams as the Solution to Managing Crises Involving Persons with Serious Psychiatric Illnesses: Does One Size Fit All?","authors":"W. Fisher, A. Grudzinskas","doi":"10.1080/15332581003757263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15332581003757263","url":null,"abstract":"Police interactions with persons who display behaviors suggestive of mental illness are extremely common. How officers manage these encounters has significant consequences for the subjects of those encounters, the criminal justice and mental health systems, and for public safety. For the past three decades, the police Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) has gained popularity as the approach for ensuring optimal outcomes of these interactions. Despite this popularity, questions remain about this approach. This article addresses two such questions: (1) What might be alternative models? and (2) What research needs to be implemented to assess the effectiveness of CIT and its impact on the mental health systems in which it is developed? We do not provide empirical answers to these questions; rather we develop a background discussion and plan for a research framework that would address these issues.","PeriodicalId":89175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of police crisis negotiations : an international journal","volume":"10 1","pages":"58 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15332581003757263","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59872377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Practical Overview of De-Escalation Skills in Law Enforcement: Helping Individuals in Crisis While Reducing Police Liability and Injury","authors":"Janet R. Oliva, Rhiannon Morgan, M. Compton","doi":"10.1080/15332581003785421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15332581003785421","url":null,"abstract":"Basic de-escalation skills training, such as that included in the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training curriculum, is a law enforcement training experience designed to equip police officers with knowledge and skills that enable them to initiate specific actions to de-escalate a crisis situation. This type of training involves the acquisition of effective communication and active listening skills, as well as other de-escalation techniques, in addition to role-playing, which involves the demonstration of and practice using the desired skills. De-escalation techniques can be an effective intervention tool that not only helps individuals who are in crisis but also reduces police liability and injury. When an officer applies de-escalation skills appropriately, the probability that he or she will effectively intervene in a crisis is increased and the need for using physical force is minimized.","PeriodicalId":89175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of police crisis negotiations : an international journal","volume":"69 1","pages":"15 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15332581003785421","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59872734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of Mental Health in Police-Reported Suicides","authors":"Vivian Lord","doi":"10.1080/15332581003799711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15332581003799711","url":null,"abstract":"Suicide is recognized as a nation-wide lethal tragedy with more than 33,000 reported deaths and about 400,000 self-inflicted injuries treated annually in the United States. Using Hostage Barricade Data System cases, this study examined the prevalence of mental health treatment histories in subjects who attempt or complete suicides that come to the attention of law enforcement, individual and incident characteristics significantly related to the suicidal subjects’ known mental illness treatment, and the significance of known mental illness treatment as suicide attempts/completions outcomes. The strong relationship between mental illness treatment and outcomes for police-reported suicidal subjects has important policy implications that are discussed.","PeriodicalId":89175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of police crisis negotiations : an international journal","volume":"10 1","pages":"191 - 204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15332581003799711","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59872798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Negotiating the Fate of People with Mental Illness: The Police and the Hospital Emergency Room","authors":"George C. Klein","doi":"10.1080/15332581003800121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15332581003800121","url":null,"abstract":"Police contacts with people with mental illness have been studied extensively. However, relatively little is known about police activity in the emergency room as such persons are transferred from the street to the hospital. In order to explore this issue, two studies were conducted. In 1973, a state hospital's psychiatric admissions were examined. A follow-up study was conducted in 2005. In 1973, people with mental illness were taken directly to the state hospital. In 2005, most people with mental illness were screened in general hospital emergency rooms. Because of mental health policies, admissions to state hospitals fell by almost two thirds. However, police involvement in psychiatric admissions remained the same: 25% to 30% of police contacts in 1973 and 2005 resulted in emergency room admissions. Therefore, despite changes in mental health policies, the police play a significant, and undiminished, role in psychiatric admissions.","PeriodicalId":89175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of police crisis negotiations : an international journal","volume":"10 1","pages":"205 - 219"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15332581003800121","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59872922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joanne A. McGriff, Beth Broussard, Berivan N. Demir Neubert, N. Thompson, M. Compton
{"title":"Implementing a Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Police Presence in a Large International Airport Setting","authors":"Joanne A. McGriff, Beth Broussard, Berivan N. Demir Neubert, N. Thompson, M. Compton","doi":"10.1080/15332581003756885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15332581003756885","url":null,"abstract":"This report presents findings from two focus groups involving nine Crisis Intervention Team (CIT)-trained officers stationed at a large, international airport. The objective was to uncover themes that could inform crisis intervention approaches in special settings. The focus groups described officers’ motivations for participating in CIT and perceived benefits of CIT training. Additionally, the groups discussed special issues pertaining to the implementation of CIT in the airport setting, as well as areas for improvement of CIT to fit the needs of this venue. Lessons learned could benefit other municipalities intending to implement CIT in special, nonpatrol settings.","PeriodicalId":89175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of police crisis negotiations : an international journal","volume":"10 1","pages":"153 - 165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15332581003756885","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59872681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reducing Risk and Improving Outcomes of Police Interactions with People with Mental Illness","authors":"T. Coleman, Dorothy Cotton","doi":"10.1080/15332581003756950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15332581003756950","url":null,"abstract":"In Canada, 7%–30% of calls for police service involve a person with a mental illness, often experiencing a crisis. Given the variety of community needs and resources, the nature of police responses related to people with mental illnesses will necessarily vary between police organizations. The systems-based Contemporary Policing Guidelines for Working with the Mental Health System developed by the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police outlines a proactive police approach to interactions with people with mental illness and with the mental health system and identifies general principles that can be applied by any police organization regardless of size or geographical/demographic factors. This will maximize the likelihood that crisis interactions between police and people with mental illnesses are prevented when possible and resolved safely and respectfully when they do occur.","PeriodicalId":89175,"journal":{"name":"Journal of police crisis negotiations : an international journal","volume":"24 1","pages":"39 - 57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15332581003756950","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59872246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}