CRM 2309 Chapter all: Readings – CRM 2309

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2309
• Professor: Erin Mc Cuaig

Document Summary

Police officers play a varied role in society, serving citizens in tasks ranging from crime fighting to order maintenance to service-related functions. Increasingly, officers are being asked to manage persons with mental illness (pmi; borum, deane, steadman, & morrissey, 1998; fuller, 2012; gur, 2010; mulvey & Deinstitutionalization policies coupled with a relative reduction in mental health spending have increasingly made the police a first and last resort for issues surrounding pmi (mulvey & white, There are two primary theoretical perspectives to explain how the police may respond to citizens displaying signs of mental illness. The first centers around vanmaanen"s (1978) asshole description and has been used to forward the prediction that officers will be more lenient and understanding toward pmi, particularly at lower levels of citizen resistance (johnson, 2011; mulvey & white, 2014). Thus, lower levels of force are used and injury is less likely in incidents involving pmi.