Policing and Mental Health

Introduction; Section I: Comparisons between Australia and the UK; 1. International Models of Police Response to Mental Illness; 2. Accessing Justice for Mental Health Sufferers? A Comparison of UK and Australian Developments; 3. New Paradigms of Policing Mental Illness in Australia: The Future of 'Mental Health Street-Sweeping'; Section II: Comparisons between the US and the UK; 4. Investment v Impact in Policing and Mental Health: What Works for Police and Suspects; 5. Deaths After Police Contact Involving People with Mental Health Issues; 6. Police Response to People with Mental Illnesses in a Major US City: The Boston Experience with the Co-Responder Model and Mental Health Innovation; Section III: Perspectives from England and Wales; 7. Why do the Police Overuse Section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983?; 8. 'This Isn't Just a Case of Taking Someone to The Hospital': Police Approaches and Management of Situations Involving Persons with Mental Ill Health in the Custody Suite and Beyond; 9. Policing, Vulnerability and Mental Health; 10. Policing and Mental Health: Do We Really Get It?; Section IV: The Mental Health of Police Officers and Staff; 11. Police Officer and Staff Wellbeing and the Management of Emotions: An Ethnographic Study of a Force Control Room and Frontline Response Officers; 12. Understanding the Mental Health and Well-being of Police Officers: Causes, Consequences and Responses to Stressors in Police Work; 13. Police Misconduct, Protraction and the Mental Health of Accused Police Officers; 14. The Spectre of Trauma in the South African Police Service; Conclusion.