NDLI: Police Perceptions of Irrational Unstable Behaviours and Use of Force

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Author	McTackett, Laura J. Thomas, Stuart D. M.
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	Police identification of people experiencing mental illness is usually based on either the person having an official contact history with police or through observing behavioural indicators commonly associated with mental illness during an encounter. Police have voiced concerns with their ability to identify and respond to people experiencing mental illness in a timely way and report that they commonly resort to more coercive tactical options to resolve encounters. The present study employed a mixed method design to examine 286 police use of force incidents to investigate the association between force used on and by offenders displaying irrational-unstable behavioural characteristics. The irrational-unstable offenders were two times more likely to be perceived by police to have an apparent mental disorder and almost four times more likely to have a known mental health history; one in six had an official record of contact with mental health services. There were few differences in police and offender use of force, considering force as both a categorical and a continuous variable, while incident-level comparisons suggested that police force was generally proportional to offender resistance. Implications are discussed in terms of the need to redress limitations with the traditional police approach style.
Starting Page	163
Ending Page	171
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISSN	08820783
Journal	Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology
Volume Number	32
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	19366469
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2016-10-11
Publisher Institution	Society for Police and Criminal Psychology
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Irrational-unstable behaviour Use of force Mental illness Police decision making Psychology Law and Psychology Criminology and Criminal Justice
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Law Applied Psychology

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