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Healthcare in a pure gatekee** system: utilization of primary, mental and emergency care in the prison population over time
BackgroundThis study investigates the prisoner and prison-level factors associated with healthcare utilization (HCU) and the dynamic effects of...
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“It’s a revolving door”: understanding the social determinants of mental health as experienced by formerly incarcerated people
BackgroundThis qualitative study seeks to understand how formerly incarcerated individuals in Rhode Island conceptualize their mental health and...
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Study protocol and stakeholder perceptions of a randomized controlled trial of a co-response police-mental health team
ObjectivesDescribe the development, results, and stakeholder perceptions of randomization procedures for determining outcomes of a co-response...
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Sex differences in pre-incarceration mental illness, substance use, injury and sexually transmitted infections and health service utilization: a longitudinal linkage study of people serving federal sentences in Ontario
BackgroundPeople who experience incarceration have poorer health than the general population. Yet, we know little about the health and health service...
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Cultural Influences and Expectations Surrounding Mental Health
The police culture has been described as a culture of fear and intimidation when an officer experiences PTSD and attempts to seek mental health...
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No health without access: using a retrospective cohort to model a care continuum for people released from prison at an urban, safety net health system
BackgroundRelease from prison is characterized by discontinuity of healthcare services and results in poor health outcomes, including an increase in...
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Pathways to Preventing Fatal Police-Involved Shootings of People in Mental Health Crisis
Over the past two decades in Australia, the number of mentally ill individuals killed by police firearms annually has remained relatively constant,...
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Routine and preventive health care use in the community among women sentenced to probation
BackgroundWomen involved in the criminal legal (CL) system in the United States have much higher levels of chronic and infectious illness than women...
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Leadership as a Mental Shield: How Leaders of Specialised Police Units Can Promote Inner Resilience and Mental Stability
Critical security situations place high demands on the mental resilience of law enforcement officers. In particular, life-threatening circumstances...
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“Good luck, social distance”: rapid decarceration and community care for serious mental illness and substance use disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic inspired calls for rapid decarceration of prisons and jails to slow the spread of disease in a high-risk congregate setting....
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Mental Illness, Then and Now
Mental illness impacts millions of people as well as their loved ones. It can take many forms; it can ebb and flow throughout the life course; it can...
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Self-Care for Professionals
The idea of burnout exists in many different professions, especially those related to both mental health and criminal justice. No matter the...
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The Mental Health Challenges Faced by Law Enforcement in America
Practical applications of evidence-based treatment and pilot therapeutic techniques are presented here in dialogue form. Helpfully educating the...
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Custodial and perinatal care patterns of women who received prenatal care while incarcerated in the Arkansas state prison system, 2014–2019
BackgroundThe extraordinary growth in women’s incarceration over the past several decades has resulted in calls for expansion of research into their...
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Sco** review of military veterans involved in the criminal legal system and their health and healthcare: 5-year update and map to the Veterans-Sequential Intercept Model
BackgroundA previous sco** review of legal-involved veterans’ health and healthcare (1947–2017) identified studies and their limitations. Given the...
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The Thin Blue Line of Mental Health
This chapter elaborates on the relationship between policing, mental illness and media. Its focus is the contemporary crisis of community-based care...
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A police-clinician co-response team to people with mental illness in a suburban-rural community: a randomized controlled trial
ObjectivesThe police-mental health co-response model has garnered support from both police and healthcare workers. It is praised for its ability to...
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Police Attitudes Towards Their Roles in Dealing with Mental Health Issues
Utilizing both interview data and researcher field observations, in this chapter we also explore police perceptions of the roles they play in the...
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Contexts sha** misdemeanor system interventions among people with mental illnesses: qualitative findings from a multi-site system map** exercise
BackgroundPeople with mental illnesses are disproportionately entangled in the criminal legal system. Historically, this involvement has resulted...
