Teplin’s 1984 Study on Mental Illness Stigma in Police-Citizen Encounters
The article “Criminalizing mental disorder” by Linda A. Teplin (1984) unveils captivating proof that mental illness is, in fact, stigmatized within the realm of police-citizen encounters. Teplin’s research, which entailed firsthand observation of 1,382 of these interactions, reveals that individuals exhibiting indications of severe mental disorder were more prone to...