1st Edition

Care Detained A Critical Analysis of Healthcare Delivery in Police Custody Suites

300 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge

Care Detained draws on the findings of the first interdisciplinary study of the delivery of healthcare within police custody in England to illuminate the ways that the funding structure results in poor quality care and treatment for detained persons.  The book traces the transition from police doctors to Healthcare Professionals (predominantly nurses and paramedics working in police custody)... Read more

1. Introduction 2. Conceptualising Care 3. How to Study Police Custody Healthcare 4. Risk Assessment Data 5. Police Custody Teamwork 6. Embedded Healthcare 7. Stigma Power and Substance Dependence (with authorial contribution from Michelle Addison) 8. (Not) Managing Mental Health and Illness 9.Falling Between the Cracks

Biography

Gethin Rees is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Newcastle University.  He is interested in the intersection of criminal justice and medicine and has previously published on the forensic medical responses following sexual violence, sleep medicine expert evidence and healthcare delivery in police custody suites.

Stephanie Mulrine is Senior Lecturer in Medical Sociology at the School of Medicine, University of Sunderland. Her research interests include experience of care and health inequalities, marginalised groups, social class, neurodiversity and death and bereavement.

Mwenza Blell is Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology at Newcastle University. An anthropologist, her research spans the UK, the Nordics, South Asia, East Africa, and Latin America. Her research uses ethnography to examine intransigent, often invisible structures of injustice.

Iain McKinnon is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at Newcastle University. His research interests include the treatment of offenders with mental disorders, and the interface between health and criminal justice systems. He redeveloped health screening procedures for people in police custody which has recently been adopted nationally in England and Wales.