Crisis intervention team training: when police encounter persons with mental illness

Abstract

The Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) model is an established training program used to improve police response to encounters involving persons with mental illness (PwMI). Diversion of PwMI from the criminal justice system to appropriate treatment providers in the community is one of the primary goals of CIT. The present study examines characteristics and outcomes of encounters between citizens experiencing mental health-related crises and CIT-trained patrol officers. Findings of this study indicate encounters involving PwMI and CIT-trained officers often result in diversion to mental health services. Implications for policy and future research are discussed.     

男孩危机:一个危言耸听的伪命题

针对目前社会上流行的中国男孩"陷入全面危机"、需要被"拯救"的专家观点和传媒误导,本文对"高考状元女生多是‘男孩学业危机'的主要标志"、"应试教育是‘男孩危机'最凶猛的杀手"、"‘父亲榜样缺失'导致‘男孩阳衰'"以及"‘因性施教'、‘限招女性'是‘拯救男孩'的妙方"等观点提出质疑,并以相关的研究结果和统计资料论证了"男孩危机"并非是一个振聋发聩的警言,而是一个危言耸听的伪命题。     

论危机警务中公安新闻发布存在的问题与对策

公安新闻发布作为危机警务中发布信息、引导舆论的重要工具,是成功处置危机警务的关键。现行的新闻发布存在错误的媒体认知、缺乏发布快速反应机制、发布渠道单一、不注重新闻发布效果、新闻发布后续工作有待完善等问题。完善危机警务中公安新闻发布需要从加强发布工作培训,提高发言人素质;建立健全危机警务新闻发布快速反应机制;适时开展多种形式的新闻发布;提高现场新闻发布能力;做好新闻发布后续报道跟踪等五个方面着手。     

美国金融危机与东北地区金融发展策略

当人们对虚拟资本(比如次级债券)未来收益的现值丧失信心时,将纷纷抛售虚拟资本,追逐货币,货币内在矛盾激化,金融危机爆发。美国金融危机是信用危机,根源在于货币和资本内在矛盾的激化。东北地区经济对外开放度不高,金融机构发展迟缓、银行不良贷款水平较高、直接融资比重偏低,美国金融危机对东北地区经济和金融业的冲击不大。在美国金融危机背景下,东北地区金融发展策略包括防止不良贷款产生、促进具有区域特色的金融创新、加强企业直接融资、完善信用体系、加大对农村和中小企业的金融支持力度等。     

危机管理——中国危机管理的实践研究

危机管理学由欧美传入中国后，在本土化、务实化方面得到迅速发展，但在基本概念、危机分类等方面尚存在不同的认识。这些差异，使得中国的危机管理与国外的操作理念也有很大不同，但近年来，中国处在大发展、大变迁的重要时期，政府每天必须应对大量的危机事态，因此，危机管理在理论与实践上都出现了一系列重大发展，如危机管理的基本评估、管理方式以及研究过程中表现出的本土化、哲学化倾向。但是还要看到，要想使中国的危机管理进一步向前发展，还必须解决目前存在的缺机构、缺学者、缺人员等“十缺”问题。     

对当前主要大国安全战略调整的看法

面对国际金融危机冲击、全球性挑战凸显与新兴大国群体性崛起,面对异常多变的国际安全环境,美、俄、英、法、日、印纷纷强化安全战略谋划,意欲趋利避害、增强主动,主要大国安全战略调整既各有侧重、又不乏共同之处,全球化与多极化新时代的大国战略博弈将更为复杂激烈。     

公共危机治理：概念框架及启示

公共危机管理理论作为一种特殊的危机管理理论其发展需要一种全新的理论框架的支撑,以＂作为状态的危机认知＂和＂治理＂理念基础上的公共危机治理概念框架应运而生。公共危机治理概念框架作为一种不同于原有的公共危机管理模式的理论架构对我国公共危机应对策略的发展有着重要意义。     

Living Parallel Lives: Italy and Greece in an Age of Austerity

The economic crisis has triggered a process of political convergence between Italy and Greece. The simultaneous downfall of the Italian and Greek governments, following the public withdrawal of European confidence in their ability to handle the crisis, was followed by the establishment of technocrat-led governments based on parliamentary ‘super-majorities’ and then by ‘protest elections’, marked by unprecedented levels of electoral volatility. By apparently ending bipolarism, the crisis has completely changed patterns of national government formation and resulted in experiments with unusual government types. Both political systems have entered a transitional phase whose outcome is anything but certain, especially in the continuing context of economic crisis.     

Race relations,nationalism and the humanitarian Rohingya crisis in contemporary Myanmar

ABSTRACT

The recent ethnic tensions in Myanmar especially in the Rakhine state has once again placed the country onto the centre stage of global media attention. The aim of this paper is to look at race relations in contemporary Myanmar with a special focus on the Rohingya community. The paper argues that problematic race relations in the country today should be analysed within a certain historical context and should be seen as part of a historical continuum. This paper places a lot of importance on this historical continuum. In this connection, the British colonial policies of divide and conquer, politicians and their obsession with Buddhism and trying to make it the state religion shortly after independence in 1948, and the xenophobic policies followed by the military junta after 1962 deserve special mention. The paper further argues that the current state of affairs and escalation in violence has happened recently because of the convergence of the activities and ideologies of certain political groups like the military junta, the National League for Democracy, the Arakan League for Democracy, and the role played by certain Buddhist extremist groups like the MaBaTha in Burmese politics. To ease the existing tension in the Rakhine, the central government would need to take a more federally minded approach and introduce meaningful democracy and development in the frontier parts of the country where there is a strong ethnic minority presence.     

Introduction

This paper critically compares and evaluates regulationist and governance approaches to the transformation of the local state. It is prompted by the close connection often made between the transition from Fordism to post-Fordism and new forms of economic and political governance. The paper first reviews the conceptual background to current concerns with regulation and governance. It then considers the basic (meta-) theoretical assumptions and core concepts of the two paradigms and identifies parallels and convergences and well as some important differences in theoretical or substantive focus. Attention then shifts to posible conflicts or tensions between regulation and governance as axes of crisis-management and crisis-resolution in local economies and states. The paper notes some problems in attempts to combine concepts and arguments relating to governance and regulation and highlights the importance of the organization of inter-organizational relations in resolving regulation and governance problems. It concludes with suggestions for subsequent research on these issues.