BookIsabelle Bartkowiak-Théron, James Clover, Denise Martin, Richard F. Southby, Nick Crofts, editors.
Summary: The expanding remit of policing as a fundamental part of the public health continuum is increasingly acknowledged on the international scene. Similarly the growing role of health professionals as brokers of public safety means that the need for scholarly resources for developing knowledge and broadening theoretical positioning and questioning is becoming urgent and crucial. The fields of law enforcement and public health are beginning to understand the inextricable links between public safety and public health and the need to shift policies and practices towards more integrated practices. This book comes as a first, an utterly timely scholarly collection that brings together the views of multidisciplinary commentators on a wide range of issues and disciplines within the law enforcement and public health (LEPH) arena. The book addresses the more conceptual aspects of the relationship as well as more applied fields of collaboration, and the authors describe and analyze a range of service delivery examples taken from real-life instances of partnerships in action. Among the topics covered: Defund, Dismantle or Define Law Enforcement, Public Health, and Vulnerability Law Enforcement and Mental Health: The Missing Middle The Challenges of Sustaining Partnerships and the Diversification of Cultures Using Public Health Concepts and Metrics to Guide Policing Strategy and Practice Policing Pandemics Law Enforcement and Public Health: Partners for Community Safety and Wellbeing is essential reading for a wide array of professions and areas of expertise in the intersectoral field of LEPH. It is an indispensable resource for public health and law enforcement specialists (practitioners, educators, scholars, and researchers) and training programs across the world, as well as individuals interested in developing their knowledge and capacity to respond to complex LEPH issues in the field, including public prosecutors, coroners, and the judiciary. The text also can be used for undergraduate and postgraduate university policing, criminology, sociology, psychology, social work, public health, and medicine programs.
Contents:
PART I - HISTORICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUES
Chapter 1. Conceptual and practice tensions in LEPH: Public health approaches to policing and Police and public health collaborations
Chapter 2. The historical public health and social work role of the police
Chapter 3. Defund, Dismantle or Define
Chapter 4. Law Enforcement, Public Health, and Vulnerability
Chapter 5. Challenges and Opportunities in Educating Law Enforcement Officers: 2020 and Beyond
Chapter 6. Historical and Conceptual Issues: Community Voices
PART II - LAW ENFORCEMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH: PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLABORATIONS IN PRACTICE
Chapter 7 - Improving Community Outcomes and Social Equity Through Leveraged Police Leadership
Chapter 8. Law enforcement and mental health: The missing middle
Chapter 9. The challenges of sustaining partnerships and the diversification of cultures
Chapter 10. Using public health concepts and metrics to guide policing strategy and practice: The case for an academic center for policing and public health
Chapter 11. Law Enforcement and Public Health Partnerships and Collaborations in Practice: Community Voices
PART III - SPECIAL ISSUES IN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Chapter 12. Moving Beyond the War on Drugs? The Rhetoric and Reality of Harm Minimisation in Australia
Chapter 13. Refugees: sitting at the nexus of law enforcement and public health. Chapter 14. First responders stress and resilience as a matter of the public health: A Scientific Approach to Police Commander's Testimonial about Police Work Challenges following Practical Implications
Chapter 15. Law enforcement and public health: a framework for analysis of LEPH in lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs)
Chapter 16. Policing pandemics: developing effective policing responses during health emergencies.