January 1, 1967

Police Discretion in Emergency Apprehension of Mentally Ill Persons

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Police Discretion in Emergency Apprehension of Mentally Ill Persons Get access Egon Bittner Egon Bittner 1Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute San Francisco Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 14, Issue 3, Winter 1967, Pages 278–292, https://doi.org/10.2307/799150 Published: 07 August 2014

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