1st Edition

Police Responses to People with Mental Illnesses Global Challenges

Edited By Duncan Chappell Copyright 2012
112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

According to the World Health Organisation during their lifetime more than one quarter of all individuals will develop one or more mental or behavioural disorders. Given prevalence data like this it is not surprising that wherever they reside on the planet many persons suffering from a mental disorder, or as is more commonly termed in popular parlance a mental illness, are likely to come into... Read more

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2. Tailoring the Police Response to People with Mental Illness to Community Characteristics in the United States Melissa Reuland

3. Current Trends in Policing and the Mentally Ill in Europe Rhonda Moore

4. Policing and the Mentally Ill in China: Challenges and Prospects T. Wing Lo and Xiaohai Wang

5. The Thin Blue Line of Mental Health in Australia Katrina Clifford

6. Police Officer Suicide within New South Wales Police Force from 1999 to 2008 Stephen Barron

Biography

Duncan Chappell is a lawyer and criminologist, is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney, Australia and a Conjoint Professor in the School of Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is the immediate past President of the New South Wales Mental Health Review Tribunal, and a past Director of the Australian Institute of Criminology.