Melissa Schaefer Morabito
Office: Wheatley 4th floor, Rm 7
Telephone: 617-287-6264
Email: melissa.morabito@umb.edu
Research
Policing, Public Health, Mental Illness, Intimate Partner Violence
Representative Publications
Watson, Amy, Beth Angell, Melissa Schaefer Morabito and Noel Robinson. 2008. “Defying Negative Expectations: Dimensions of Fair and Respectful Treatment by Police Officers as Perceived by People with Mental Illness”. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, In press.
Morabito, Melissa Schaefer. “The Adoption of Police Innovation: The Role of the Political Environment” Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, In press.
Morabito, Melissa Schaefer. 2008. “Understanding Community Policing as an Innovation: Patterns of Adoption.” Crime and Delinquency, DOI: 0: 0011128707311643v1, In press.
Watson, Amy, Melissa Schaefer Morabito, Jeffrey Draine and Victor Ottati. 2008. “Improving Police Response to Persons with Mental Illness: A Multi-Level Conceptualization of CIT”. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 31: 359-368.
Morabito, Melissa Schaefer. 2007. “Horizons of Context: Understanding the Police Decision to Arrest People with Mental Illness.” Psychiatric Services, 58(12): 1582-1587.