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Police officers deal with mental illness-related incidents on an
almost daily basis. Ian Cummins explores how factors such as
deinstitutionalisation, community care failings and, more recently,
welfare retrenchment policies have led to this situation. He then
considers how police officers should be supported by community
mental health agencies to make confident and correct decisions, and
to ensure that the individuals they encounter receive support from
the most appropriate services. Of interest to police researchers
and students of criminology and the social sciences, the book
examines police officers' views on mental health work and includes
a chapter by a service user.
Police officers deal with mental illness-related incidents on an
almost daily basis. Ian Cummins explores how factors such as
deinstitutionalisation, community care failings and, more recently,
welfare retrenchment policies have led to this situation. He then
considers how police officers should be supported by community
mental health agencies to make confident and correct decisions, and
to ensure that the individuals they encounter receive support from
the most appropriate services. Of interest to police researchers
and students of criminology and the social sciences, the book
examines police officers' views on mental health work and includes
a chapter by a service user.
In this enlightening study, Ian Cummins traces changing attitudes
to penal and welfare systems. From Margaret Thatcher's first
cabinet, to austerity politics via New Labour, the book reveals the
ideological shifts that have led successive governments to
reinforce their penal powers. It shows how 'tough on crime'
messages have spread to other areas of social policy, fostering the
neoliberal political economy, encouraging hostile approaches to the
social state and creating stigma for those living in poverty. This
is an important addition to the debate around the complex and
interconnected issues of welfare and punishment.
While their attempts to understand the workings of capitalism led
them to the conclusion that the advanced societies of Western
Europe were those most likely to be the setting for a successful
socialist revolution, Marx and Engels by no means ignored
developments outside this region. Indeed, given the configurations
of international politics in their time, plus their conception of
capitalism as a universalising system, they believed that some of
the forces working for change in less advanced regions could even
affect the prospects of a proletarian revolution in Western Europe
itself. This book, first published in 1980, traces the development
of Marx and Engels' attitudes towards, and relations with, the
principal national movements of their time. It deals with their
responses to such movements in areas as diverse as Ireland and
India, Poland and China, and Russia and the United States, as well
as in many other regions. Many of Max and Engels' most significant
statements on the national question were made in their journalism,
occasional addresses and private correspondence - sources not
always readily accessible to, or even known by, some of their more
immediate successors. Subsequent publication of this
previously-dispersed material has enabled a more coherent picture
of their ideas on the subject to be drawn. Marx and Engels believed
that national aspirations and the cause of socialism did not always
go hand in hand and each national struggle had to be examined on
its merits and judged according to whether its success would retard
or enhance the prospects of a socialist revolution. Based on a wide
range of sources, this study examines an important, yet neglected,
area of Marx and Engels' ideas and activities, and indicates the
criteria by which they determined their attitudes at different
times to a variety of national movements at work in four
continents.
While their attempts to understand the workings of capitalism led
them to the conclusion that the advanced societies of Western
Europe were those most likely to be the setting for a successful
socialist revolution, Marx and Engels by no means ignored
developments outside this region. Indeed, given the configurations
of international politics in their time, plus their conception of
capitalism as a universalising system, they believed that some of
the forces working for change in less advanced regions could even
affect the prospects of a proletarian revolution in Western Europe
itself. This book, first published in 1980, traces the development
of Marx and Engels' attitudes towards, and relations with, the
principal national movements of their time. It deals with their
responses to such movements in areas as diverse as Ireland and
India, Poland and China, and Russia and the United States, as well
as in many other regions. Many of Max and Engels' most significant
statements on the national question were made in their journalism,
occasional addresses and private correspondence - sources not
always readily accessible to, or even known by, some of their more
immediate successors. Subsequent publication of this
previously-dispersed material has enabled a more coherent picture
of their ideas on the subject to be drawn. Marx and Engels believed
that national aspirations and the cause of socialism did not always
go hand in hand and each national struggle had to be examined on
its merits and judged according to whether its success would retard
or enhance the prospects of a socialist revolution. Based on a wide
range of sources, this study examines an important, yet neglected,
area of Marx and Engels' ideas and activities, and indicates the
criteria by which they determined their attitudes at different
times to a variety of national movements at work in four
continents.
In this enlightening study, Ian Cummins traces changing attitudes
to penal and welfare systems. From Margaret Thatcher's first
cabinet, to austerity politics via New Labour, the book reveals the
ideological shifts that have led successive governments to
reinforce their penal powers. It shows how 'tough on crime'
messages have spread to other areas of social policy, fostering the
neoliberal political economy, encouraging hostile approaches to the
social state and creating stigma for those living in poverty. This
is an important addition to the debate around the complex and
interconnected issues of welfare and punishment.
Taking a critical and radical approach, this book calls for a
return to mental health social work that has personal relationships
and an emotional connection between workers and those experiencing
distress at its core. The optimism that underpinned the development
of community care policies has dissipated to be replaced by a form
of bleak managerialism. Neoliberalism has added stress to services
already under great pressure and created a danger that we could
revert to institutional forms of care. This much-needed book argues
that the original progressive values of community care policies
need to be rediscovered, updated and reinvigorated to provide a
basis for a mental health social work that returns to fundamental
notions of dignity and citizenship.
This book offers a critical, sociological analysis of the domino
effect of neoliberalism and austerity politics on the role of
social work and wider welfare provision. It argues that social work
should move away from the resultant emphasis on risk management and
bureaucracy, and return to a focus on relational and community
approaches as the cornerstone of practice. Applying theoretical
frameworks to practice, including those of Bourdieu and the recent
work of Wacquant, the book examines the development of neoliberal
ideas and their impact on social welfare. It explores the
implications of this across a range of areas of social work
practice, including work with children and families, working with
asylum seekers and refugees and mental health social work.
Taking a critical and radical approach, this book calls for a
return to mental health social work that has personal relationships
and an emotional connection between workers and those experiencing
distress at its core. The optimism that underpinned the development
of community care policies has dissipated to be replaced by a form
of bleak managerialism. Neoliberalism has added stress to services
already under great pressure and created a danger that we could
revert to institutional forms of care. This much-needed book argues
that the original progressive values of community care policies
need to be rediscovered, updated and reinvigorated to provide a
basis for a mental health social work that returns to fundamental
notions of dignity and citizenship.
This book offers a critical, sociological analysis of the domino
effect of neoliberalism and austerity politics on the role of
social work and wider welfare provision. It argues that social work
should move away from the resultant emphasis on risk management and
bureaucracy, and return to a focus on relational and community
approaches as the cornerstone of practice. Applying theoretical
frameworks to practice, including those of Bourdieu and the recent
work of Wacquant, the book examines the development of neoliberal
ideas and their impact on social welfare. It explores the
implications of this across a range of areas of social work
practice, including work with children and families, working with
asylum seekers and refugees and mental health social work.
This critical interdisciplinary study charts the modern history of
mental health services, reflects upon the evolution of care in
communities, and considers the most effective policies and
practices for the future. Starting with the development of
community care in the 1960s, Cummins explores the political,
economic, and bureaucratic factors behind the changes and crises in
mental health social care, returning to those roots to identify
progressive principles that can pave a sustainable pathway forward.
This is a groundbreaking contribution to debates about the role,
values, and future of community care, and is vital reading for
students, teachers, and researchers in the field of social work and
mental health.
This book examines the media and cultural responses to the awful
crimes of Brady and Hindley, whose murders provided a template for
future media reporting on serial killers. It explores a wide
variety of topics relating to the Moors Murders case including: the
historical and geographical context of the murders, the reporting
of the case and the unique features which have become standard for
other murder cases e.g. nicknames for the serial killers, and it
discusses the nature of evil and psychopaths and how they are
represented in film, drama, novels and art. It also questions the
ethics of the "serial killing industry" and how the modern cultural
fixation on celebrity has extended to serial killers, and it
explores the impact on the journalists and police officers from
being involved in such cases including some interviews with them.
The treatment of Brady and Hindley by the media also raises
profound questions about the nature of punishment including the
links between mental illness and crime and whether there is ever
the prospect of redemption. This book draws on cultural studies,
criminology, sociology and socio-legal studies to offers a
multi-dimensional analysis of the impact of this case and then uses
this as a basis for the analysis of more recent cases such as the
crimes of Peter Sutcliffe and Harold Shipman.
The Criminal Justice System is becoming a de facto provider of
mental health care, according to a series of recent prison
inspections and reports on policing and mental illness which have
highlighted the crisis in mental health services. However, the
pressures on prisons and other areas of the CJS mean that the needs
of those with mental health problems are often overlooked. This
book examines the experiences of people with mental health problems
across all stages of the CJS and across all the points of contact -
police, Courts and prisons between the CJS and people with mental
health problems. Providing a clearly written, comprehensive
introduction to the main themes in this field, it also has a clear
critical edge highlighting the failings in the areas of penal and
social policy that have resulted in increasing numbers of people
with mental health problems being criminalised. Highlighting a very
important social issue, Mental Health and the Criminal Justice
System provides a thorough introduction to this subject for social
work students and practitioners.
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