Improving Police Response to Autistic Persons: A Community-Informed, Attributional Approach

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dc.contributor.advisorSchuller, Regina
dc.contributor.authorSalerno, Alisha Carmela
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-04T15:20:53Z
dc.date.available2023-08-04T15:20:53Z
dc.date.issued2023-08-04
dc.date.updated2023-08-04T15:20:52Z
dc.degree.disciplinePsychology (Functional Area: Social and Personality)
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractAutism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that can affect social interaction, communication, and behaviour. autistic individuals may react differently in stressful situations, such as police encounters, which can subsequently lead to adverse outcomes. The current research examines police response toward autistic individuals. In the first paper, I examined how autistic community members perceive the challenges police may face when interacting with autistic individuals, as well as explored community-informed recommendations on how interactions between the police and autistic people can be better managed. In the second paper, across four studies, I examined decision-making in police interactions with autistic people through a lens of attribution theory, exploring how autistic-characteristic behaviour affects attributions and responses. Taken together, this research represents a novel exploration of decision-making toward autistic people in police encounters, and how these interactions can be better managed, using an evidence-based, community-informed approach.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/41388
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectSocial psychology
dc.subject.keywordsAutism spectrum disorder
dc.subject.keywordsPolice decision-making
dc.subject.keywordsAttribution theory
dc.titleImproving Police Response to Autistic Persons: A Community-Informed, Attributional Approach
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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