Challenges in mental health and policing : key themes and perspectives /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cummins, Ian, 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : Bristol University Press : Policy Press, 2022.
Colección:Key themes in policing.
Temas:
Mentally ill offenders.
Mentally ill > Crimes against.
Law enforcement.
Police-community relations.
Community mental health services.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of figures and tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Series preface
  • Introduction
  • Policing and society
  • Mental health and mental illness: key themes and perspectives
  • Policing, mental health and the criminal justice system
  • 'Street-level psychiatrists'?
  • Policing and stress
  • A comparative research study of mental health triage
  • Defunding the police: a mental health perspective
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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