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While experiencing psychiatric crisis at similar rates, “African-Americans are more likely to be brought to the ER by police than whites and those who are brought to the ER by police are even more likely to be involuntarily committed” (@MichaelLPerlin @cuc1699)

The Marginalization of Racial Minorities and Women in Institutional Mental Disability Law

Journal of Gender, Race, and Justice

Perlin, Michael L. / Cucolo, Heather

2017

10.2139/ssrn.2901144

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