RT Article
T1 Stumbling from One Disaster to Another: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Mental Health Calls for Police Service across Canada
JF Canadian journal of criminology and criminal justice
VO 64
IS 4
SP 1
OP 20
A1 Andresen, Martin 1977-
A2 Hodgkinson, Tarah
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1839600284
AB The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on crime in Canada and internationally. However, less is known about the impact of the pandemic on police-reported mental-health-related incidents. We explore three types of mental-health-related incidents (suicide and suicide attempts, Mental Health Act apprehensions, and mental health [other]) against property and violent crimes, across 13 police jurisdictions in Canada. Despite an international decline in most crime types during COVID-19, we find general stability across police-reported mental-health-related incidents. These findings suggest that the change in social behaviour that reduced opportunities for crime did not have a similar effect on mental-health-related incidents. It also suggests that calls for increased police budgets to respond to expected increases in mental-health-related incidents may be unjustified.
K1 Covid-19
K1 Canada
K1 Crime
K1 Mental Health
K1 Police
K1 santé mentale
DO 10.3138/cjccj.2022-0016