CRM 3311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Assault, Deinstitutionalisation, Dual Diagnosis
8 Oct 2018
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Police and discretion (7) policing the mentally ill (pt. 2: hospitalization: forms 1, 2, 3, and 4. Waste of time if the person is discharged quickly: comorbidity is not welcomed. If someone has a dual diagnosis (e. g. mentally ill and underlying substance abuse problem), the hospital does not feel equipped enough to handle them. They will request that the patient detoxes before they can get treatment for their mental illness. Why are mentally ill persons more likely to be arrested: the mental disorder may not be recognized by the police, the individual may have an underlying mental illness that causes them to be disruptive against their will. An officer may arrest them because they are seen as just another disruptive individual: crimes of necessity/survival, deinstitutionalization caused the community to stop giving resources to those in need. Therefore, the criminal justice system will book them out of mercy.
