Mean streets and mental health: Depression and post‐traumatic stress disorder at crime hot spots

D Weisburd, B Cave, M Nelson, C White… - American journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This study explores the relationship between mental health and place at microgeographic
units of analysis. We examine self‐reported symptomology for depression and PTSD for …

The spatial patterning of emergency demand for police services: a scoping review

S Langton, S Ruiter, L Schoonmade - Crime Science, 2024 - Springer
This preregistered scoping review provides an account of studies which have examined the
spatial patterning of emergency reactive police demand (ERPD) as measured by calls for …

Shedding light on the dark figure of police mental health calls for service

J Koziarski, L Ferguson, L Huey - Policing: a journal of policy …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Recent discussions around police reform have acquired a significant degree of traction.
Within these discussions have been calls to remove the police as primary responders to …

A police-clinician co-response team to people with mental illness in a suburban-rural community: a randomized controlled trial

SM Yang, CE Gill, YF Lu, M Azam… - Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - Springer
Objectives The police-mental health co-response model has garnered support from both
police and healthcare workers. It is praised for its ability to enhance crisis de-escalation …

Testing for similarity in area‐based spatial patterns: Alternative methods to Andresen's spatial point pattern test

AP Wheeler, W Steenbeek, MA Andresen - Transactions in GIS, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Andresen's spatial point pattern test (SPPT) compares two spatial point patterns on defined
areal units; it identifies areas where the spatial point patterns diverge and aggregates these …

Calling the police: Dispatchers as important interpreters and manufacturers of calls for service data

R Simpson - Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Policing has historically been conceptualized as a team sport which requires the work of
many to produce the output of one. Although police officers have been the focus of much …

The limits of our knowledge: tracking the size and scope of police involvement with persons with mental illness

L Huey, L Ferguson, AD Vaughan - Facets, 2021 - facetsjournal.com
Significant public discourse has focused recently on police–civilian interactions involving
with persons with mental illness (PMI). Despite increasing public attention, and growing …

What do police do and where do they do it?

KE Wuschke, MA Andresen… - … Journal of Police …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent research in the economics of policing has been concerned with what the police do
and how much time they spend on those activities. Some of this research has highlighted …

Policing and Mental ill-health: Using Big Data to Assess the Scale and Severity of, and the Frontline Resources Committed to, mental ill-health-related calls-for-service

S Langton, J Bannister, M Ellison… - Policing: A Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Addressing public safety and welfare, inclusive of responding to incidents involving persons
with mental ill-health (PMIH) has become an integral dimension of, and a significant …

Understanding the spatial patterns of police activity and mental health in a Canadian city

T Hodgkinson, MA Andresen - Journal of Contemporary …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Mental health–related calls for service are increasing across Canadian communities.
However, the spatial dynamics of these calls for service and their potential relationship with …