1st Edition

Policing and the Mentally Ill International Perspectives

Edited By Duncan Chappell Copyright 2013
382 Pages
by Routledge

384 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

382 Pages
by Routledge

In countries with democratic traditions, police interactions with the mentally ill are usually guided by legislative mandates giving police discretion and possibly resulting in referrals for assistance and treatment. But all too frequently, the outcome of these interactions is far less therapeutic and leads to a cycle of arrests and ultimately incarceration. Stemming from an initiative in... Read more

Developments in North America and Europe. Developing a Statewide Approach to Specialised Policing Response (SPR) Programme Implementation. Improving Relationships Between Police and People With Mental Illnesses: Canadian Developments. European Police and Persons With Mental Illnesses: A Review of the Contemporary Literature. Developments in Australia. NSW Police Force Mental Health Intervention Team: Forging a New Path Forward in Mental Health and Policing in the Community. The Mental Health Intervention Program: Preventing and Resolving Mental Health Crisis Situations. Core Requirements of a Best Practise Model for Police Encounters Involving People Experiencing Mental Illness in Australia: A Victorian Perspective. Policing and the Mentally Ill: Victimisation and Offending in Severe Mental Illness. The Role of Mental Disorders in Use of Force Incidents Between the Police and the Public. Dragana Kesic Mental Health Crisis Interventions and the Politics of Police Use of Deadly Force. Mental Health Frequent Presenters: Key Concerns, Case Management Approaches, and Policy and Programme Considerations for Emergency Services. Compounding Mental and Cognitive Disability and Disadvantage: Legal Myth Busting and Frontline Mental Health Decision Making. Police Officer Mental Illness, Suicide, and the Effects of a Policing Organisation. The Developing World. Community Policing and People With Mental Disorders: Responding to Developing World Challenges in Papua New Guinea. Reflections on Policing and Mental Health in Africa: Integrating and Regulating Diverse Healing and Policing Systems. Policing and Mentally Ill Persons in Hong Kong. Index.



Biography

Duncan Chappell, a lawyer and criminologist, is currently an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney, Australia; a conjoint professor in the School of Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales, Australia; and an adjunct professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. He is also chair of the International Advisory Board of the Australian Research Council Center of Excellence in Policing and Security. He is a past president of the New South Wales Mental Health Review Tribunal and a past director of the Australian Institute of Criminology.