Dr Ian Cummins' Outputs (11)

Why privatisation of social care may not be the answer to a coming crisis (2016)
Other
Parkinson, K., & Cummins, I. (2016). Why privatisation of social care may not be the answer to a coming crisis

Social work and the penal state (2016)
Journal Article

The Criminal Justice System (CJS) has historically been a key site of social work intervention. Wacquant (2008, 2009a and 2009b) argues that the growth of social insecurity and the expansion of the penal state are endogenous features of the neo-liber... Read More about Social work and the penal state.

Putting diagnosis into brackets : Franco Basaglia, radical psychiatry, and contemporary mental health services (2016)
Journal Article
Cummins, I. (2016). Putting diagnosis into brackets : Franco Basaglia, radical psychiatry, and contemporary mental health services. Illness, Crisis and Loss, 26(3), 187-199. https://doi.org/10.1177/1054137316659206

Mental health services in England and Wales are facing a crisis. The vision of properly funded, flexible, and service-user focused community-based services, that was one of the key drivers of deinstitutionalization, has never been realized. This arti... Read More about Putting diagnosis into brackets : Franco Basaglia, radical psychiatry, and contemporary mental health services.

The media, serial killers, and a perfect summer novel about both (2016)
Other
Cummins, I., & King, M. (2016). The media, serial killers, and a perfect summer novel about both

From hero of the counterculture to risk assessment : a consideration of two portrayals of the “psychiatric patient” (2016)
Journal Article

This article is based on a comparative thematic analysis of two novels that explore the experiences of institutional psychiatric care. Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a classic of modern U.S. literature. It is argued here th... Read More about From hero of the counterculture to risk assessment : a consideration of two portrayals of the “psychiatric patient”.

The Moors murders 50 years on: how Brady and Hindley became an awful ‘celebrity’ template (2016)
Other
Cummins, I. (2016). The Moors murders 50 years on: how Brady and Hindley became an awful ‘celebrity’ template

Suicide on the railways can be prevented – here’s what’s being done already (2016)
Other
Cummins, I. (2016). Suicide on the railways can be prevented – here’s what’s being done already

Mental health and the criminal justice system : a social work perspective (2016)
Book
Cummins, I. (2016). Mental health and the criminal justice system : a social work perspective. Critical Publishing Ltd

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, th... Read More about Mental health and the criminal justice system : a social work perspective.

Wacquant, urban marginality, territorial stigmatization and social work (2016)
Journal Article

Loic Wacquant is currently Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. He has written extensively on issues related to urban poverty, race and the expansion of the use of imprisonment. Wacquant is heavily influenced by the wor... Read More about Wacquant, urban marginality, territorial stigmatization and social work.

Policing and street triage (2016)
Journal Article

Purpose

– In his recent report, Lord Adebowale (2013) described mental health issues as “core police business”. The recent retrenchment in mental health and wider public services mean that the demands on the police in this area are likely to incre... Read More about Policing and street triage.

The strange case of Ian Stuart Brady and the Mental Health Review Tribunal (2016)
Journal Article

Haggerty (2009) argues that serial killing is essentially a phenomenon of modernity. One of the key features of modernity is the role of mass media and the rise of celebrity culture. He suggests that there is a symbiotic relationship between the medi... Read More about The strange case of Ian Stuart Brady and the Mental Health Review Tribunal.