Schucan Bird, KL;
Vigurs, C;
Quy, K;
Shemilt, I;
(2017)
Police Pre-Arrest Diversion of People with Mental Health Issues: A Systematic Review of the Impacts on Crime and Mental Health.
(What Works: Crime Reduction Systematic Review Series
7
).
EPPI Centre, Social Science Research Unit (SSRU), UCL Institute of Education: London, UK.
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Abstract
Mental health is recognised as a part of the ‘core business of policing’ (Adebowale, 2013; Butler, 2014). Changes in community mental health services mean that the police constitute the ‘first emergency service’ for people experiencing a mental health crisis (Lamb et al, 2002). The nature of policing and mental health in England and Wales, however, is complex and challenging. Officers do not have sufficient resources to deal with people with mental health issues (PMHI) or assist individuals in crisis (Home Affairs Select Committee, 2015). PMHI who are suspected of an offence can be cautioned, arrested and/ or taken into police custody. Typically involving low level offences, anti-social behaviour or ‘survival crimes’ (Hiday, 1999), such arrests are considered to be unnecessary or contributing to the ‘criminalisation of mental illness’ (Butler, 2014; Reuland et al., 2009; Teplin, 1985). Alternatively, an individual in need of ‘immediate care or control’ can be detained under section 136 of the Mental Health Act (1983). Such individuals are often taken to police custody cells, rather than NHS Mental Health Section 136 suites, due to lack of capacity in the health system (HMIC, 2013; NHS Confederation, 2015).
| Type: | Report |
|---|---|
| Title: | Police Pre-Arrest Diversion of People with Mental Health Issues: A Systematic Review of the Impacts on Crime and Mental Health |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://whatworks.college.police.uk/Research/Syste... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © the author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. In addition there should be an indication if any changes were made to the original text and there should be no suggestion that the authors or any of their collaborators endorses you or your use. |
| Keywords: | policing, mental health |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10066359 |
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