Policing and the mentally ill : international perspectives / edited by Duncan Chappell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chappell, Duncan.

Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Series:

Advances in police theory and practice series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mentally ill offenders.

Mental illness.

Police services for the mentally ill.

Law enforcement.

Physical Description:

xxxviii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2013.

Contents:

Section I. Developments in North America and Europe: 1. Developing a statewide approach to specialised policing response (SPR) programme implementation / Melissa Reuland, Laura Draper, and Blake Norton; 2. Improving relationships between police and people with mental illnesses: Canadian developments / Dorothy Cotton and Terry Coleman; 3. European police and persons with mental illnesses: a review of the contemporary literature / Rhonda Moore

Section II. Developments in Australia: 4. NSW police force mental health intervention team: forging a new path forward in mental health and policing in the community? / David Donohue and Gina Andrews; 5. The mental health intervention program: preventing and resolving mental health crisis situations / Queensland Police Service; 6. Core requirements of a best practice model for police encounters involving people experiencing mental illness in Australia: a Victorian perspective / Stuart Thomas; 7. Policing and the mentally ill: victimisation and offending in serious mental illness / Tamsin Short; 8. The role of mental disorders in use of force incidents between the police and the public / Dragana Kesic; 9. Mental health crisis interventions and the politics of police use of deadly force / Katrina Clifford; 10. Mental health frequent presenters: key concerns, case management approaches and policy and program considerations for emergency services / Gina Andrews and Eileen Baldry; 11. Compounding mental and cognitive disability and disadvantage: police as care managers / Eileen Baldry and Leanne Dowse; 12. Legal myth bursting and frontline mental health decision making / Simon Bronitt and Jane Gath; 13. Police officer mental illness, suicide and the effects of a policing organisation / Stephen Barron

Section III. The Developing World: 14. Community policing and people with mental disorders: responding to developing world challenges in Papua New Guinea / Duncan Chappell; 15. Reflections on policing and mental health in Africa: integrating and regulating diverse healing and policing systems / Fleur Beaupert; 16. Policing and mentally ill persons in Hong Kong / Sharon Ingrid Kwok, T. Wing Lo, and Percy Lee.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

ISBN:

1439881162

9781439881163

OCLC:

724640813

Publisher Number:

99954551679