@article{ref1,
title="A 20-year follow-up survey of police officers' experience with Tarasoff warnings: how law enforcement reacts to clinicians' duty to protect",
journal="Behavioral sciences and the law",
year="2022",
author="Guina, Jeffrey and Dornfeld, Bradleigh and Pinals, Debra A.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Since the Tarasoff case of 1976, mental health professionals are recognized to have a &quot;duty to protect&quot; third-party targets from violence-threatening patients, but little is known about what happens after clinicians warn law enforcement. In 2000, Huber et al. published a study that surveyed Michigan police about &quot;Tarasoff warnings.&quot; We conducted a 20-year follow-up study, inviting all Michigan police and sheriff departments to participate. There were no significant differences between studies about knowledge of Tarasoff-related policies, which was low in both surveys. We found significant decreases in the number of officers who had ever intervened due to warning calls. Of the survey respondents, 83% supported documenting warning calls. For those who received warnings, 96% followed up with at least one intervention. In both studies, notifying other officers was the most common action taken. 56% said they would take action to remove a firearm. We identified opportunities for training law enforcement.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0735-3936",
doi="10.1002/bsl.2564",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bsl.2564"
}