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Challenges in Mental Health and Policing: Key Themes and Perspectives
Challenges in Mental Health and Policing: Key Themes and Perspectives
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Police officers deal with mental illness-related incidents daily, and Ian Cummins explores how factors such as deinstitutionalisation, community care failings, and 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 ensure that individuals receive support from the most appropriate services.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 26 July 2022
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Police officers face mental illness-related incidents on a daily basis, and Ian Cummins explores the factors that have led to this situation. He considers how police officers should be supported by community mental health agencies to make confident and correct decisions and ensure that individuals receive support from the most appropriate services. The book is of interest to police researchers and students of criminology and the social sciences, and includes a chapter by a service user.
Deinstitutionalisation, community care failings, and welfare retrenchment policies have all contributed to the situation of police officers dealing with mental illness-related incidents on a daily basis. Ian Cummins explores these factors and considers how police officers should be supported by community mental health agencies to make confident and correct decisions and ensure that individuals receive support from the most appropriate services.
The book is of interest to police researchers and students of criminology and the social sciences, and includes a chapter by a service user.
Weight: 256g
Dimension: 156 x 234 x 13 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781447360841
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