1st Edition
Policing and Mental Health Theory, Policy and Practice
This book explores the relationship between policing and mental health. Police services around the world are innovating at pace in order to develop solutions to the problems presented, and popular models are being shared internationally. Nevertheless, disparities and perceptions of unfairness remain commonplace. Innovations remain poorly funded and largely unproven.
Drawing together the insights of eminent academics in the UK, the US, Australia and South Africa, the edited collection evaluates the condition of mental health and policing as an interlocked policy area, uncovering and addressing a number of key issues which are shaping police responses to mental health. Due to a relative lack of academic texts pertaining to developments in England and Wales, the volume contains a distinct section on relevant policies and practices. It also includes sections on US and Australian approaches, focusing on Crisis Intervention Teams (CITs), Mental Health Intervention Teams (MHITs), stressors and innovations from Boston in the US to Queensland in Australia.
Written in a clear and direct style, this book will appeal to students and scholars in policing, criminology, sociology, mental health, cultural studies, social theory and those interested in learning about the condition and trajectory of police responses to mental health.
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Foreword
PROFESSOR MAURICE PUNCH
Introduction
JOHN L.M. McDANIEL, KATE MOSS AND KEN G. PEASE
SECTION I
Comparisons between Australia and the UK
1 International models of police response to mental illness
STUART D.M THOMAS AND DRAGANA KESIC
2 Accessing justice for mentally ill people: A comparison of UK and Australian developments
COLIN ROGERS AND EMMA WINTLE
3 New paradigms of policing mental illness in Australia: the future of ‘mental health street-sweeping’
HELEN PUNTER AND SIMON BRONITT
SECTION II
Comparisons between the US and the UK
4 Investment v impact in policing and mental health: what works for police and suspects
EDDIE KANE
5 Deaths after police contact involving people with mental health issues
DAVID BAKER AND CLAIRE PILLINGER
6 Police response to people with mental illnesses in a major US city: the Boston experience with the co-responder model and mental health innovation
JENNA SAVAGE AND MELISSA S. MORABITO
SECTION III
Perspectives from England and Wales
7 Examining the relationship between policing and section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983
ALLYN THOMAS
8 ‘This isn’t just a case of taking someone to the hospital’: police approaches and management of situations involving persons with mental ill health in the custody suite and beyond
SAMANTHA WESTON AND JULIE TREBILCOCK
9 Policing, vulnerability and mental health
IAN CUMMINS
10 Policing and mental health: do we really get it?
EMMA WILLIAMS, JENNIFER NORMAN AND MICHAEL BROWN
SECTION IV
The mental health of police officers and staff
11 Police officer and staff well-being and the management of emotions: an ethnographic study of a force control room and frontline response officers
KAREN LUMSDEN AND ALEX BLACK
12 Understanding the mental health and well-being of police officers: causes, consequences and responses to stressors in police work
KAREN BULLOCK AND JON GARLAND
13 Police misconduct, protraction and the mental health of accused police officers
JOHN L.M. McDANIEL, KATE MOSS, KEN G. PEASE AND PARAMJIT SINGH
14 The spectre of trauma in the South African police service
GRÁINNE PERKINS, SIMON HOWELL AND CLIFFORD SHEARING
Conclusion
JOHN L.M. McDANIEL, KATE MOSS AND KEN G. PEASE
Index
Biography
John L.M. McDaniel is a senior lecturer in policing and criminal justice at the University of Wolverhampton.
Kate Moss is Professor of Applied Criminology at the University of Derby.
Ken G. Pease OBE is Professor of Policing at the University of Derby and a British forensic psychologist and criminologist.
