Challenges in Mental Health and Policing

Key Themes and Perspectives

Ian Cummins (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2022
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-6083-4 (ISBN)

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Police officers deal with mental illness-related incidents on an almost daily basis. Ian Cummins explores the policy failures that have led to this situation, and considers how the individuals in police officers' care should be supported by community mental health agencies.

Police officers deal with mental illness-related incidents on an almost daily basis. Ian Cummins explores how factors such as deinstitutionalisation, community care failings and, more recently, welfare retrenchment policies have led to this situation. He then considers how police officers should be supported by community mental health agencies to make confident and correct decisions, and to ensure that the individuals they encounter receive support from the most appropriate services.

Of interest to police researchers and students of criminology and the social sciences, the book examines police officers’ views on mental health work and includes a chapter by a service user.

Ian Cummins is Senior Lecturer in the School of Health and Society at the University of Salford.

Introduction

1. Policing and society

2. Mental health and mental illness: key themes and perspectives

3. Policing, mental health and the criminal justice system

4. 'Street-level psychiatrists'?

5. Policing and stress

6. A comparative study of mental health triage - Alice Park

7. Defunding the police: a mental health perspective

Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	28.07.2022
Reihe/Serie	Key Themes in Policing
Zusatzinfo	3 Tables, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4473-6083-4 / 1447360834
ISBN-13	978-1-4473-6083-4 / 9781447360834
Zustand	Neuware