The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health calls for police service
Abstract Drawing upon seven years of police calls for service data (2014–2020), this study examined the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on calls involving persons with perceived mental illness (PwPMI) using a Bayesian Structural Time Series. The findings revealed that PwPMI calls did not increase im...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2021-10-01
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Series: | Crime Science |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40163-021-00157-6 |