Dr Ian Cummins' Outputs (110)

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.

'Drowning in here in his bloody sea' : exploring TV cop drama's representations of the impact of stress in modern policing (2015)
Journal Article
Cummins, I., & King, M. (2015). 'Drowning in here in his bloody sea' : exploring TV cop drama's representations of the impact of stress in modern policing. Policing and Society, 27(8), 832-846. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2015.1112387

The Criminal Justice System is a part of society that is both familiar and hidden. It is familiar in that a large part of daily news and television drama is devoted to it (Carrabine, 2008; Jewkes, 2011). It is hidden in the sense that the majority of... Read More about 'Drowning in here in his bloody sea' : exploring TV cop drama's representations of the impact of stress in modern policing.

Reading the death of Mrs A : a serious case review (2015)
Journal Article
Cummins, I., & Foley, M. (2015). Reading the death of Mrs A : a serious case review. Journal of Adult Protection, 17(5), 321-330. https://doi.org/10.1108/JAP-12-2014-0038

Purpose – The purpose is to report the main themes identified into the SCR produced by
Surrey Safeguarding Adults Board (SSAB) regarding the suicide of Mrs A in January
2013.
Design –A case study approach is used to examine the SCR. The article li... Read More about Reading the death of Mrs A : a serious case review.

Why vulnerable people in police custody desperately need more support (2015)
Other
Cummins, I. (2015). Why vulnerable people in police custody desperately need more support

The criminal entrepreneur in David Peace’s Red Riding (2015)
Journal Article
King, M., & Cummins, I. (2015). The criminal entrepreneur in David Peace’s Red Riding. Contemporary issues in entrepreneurship research (Print), 5, 155-177. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2040-724620150000005013

Purpose: David Peace’s Red Riding quartet ( 1974; 1977; 1980; 1983 ) was published in the UK between 1999 and 2002. The novels are an excoriating portrayal of the violences of men, focusing on paedophilia and child murder, the hunt for the Yorkshire... Read More about The criminal entrepreneur in David Peace’s Red Riding.

Book review: Mass incarceration on trial : a remarkable court decision and the future of prisons in America (2015)
Journal Article
remarkable court decision and the future of prisons in America. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 37(2), 283-285. https://doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2015.1028163

Strangeways 25 years after the riot: are British prisons better? (2015)
Other
Cummins, I. (2015). Strangeways 25 years after the riot: are British prisons better?

Reading Wacquant : social work and advanced marginality (2015)
Journal Article
Cummins, I. (2015). Reading Wacquant : social work and advanced marginality. European Journal of Social Work, 19(2), 263-274. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2015.1022861

Professor Loic Wacquant was born in Montpelier in 1960. He was educated in Francebefore completing a Ph.D. in Chicago in 1994. He is currently Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. His work is concerned with the impact o... Read More about Reading Wacquant : social work and advanced marginality.

One in five suicides caused by unemployment but the lead-up to lay-off hurts most (2015)
Other
Cummins, I. (2015). One in five suicides caused by unemployment but the lead-up to lay-off hurts most

Discussing race, racism and mental health : two mental health inquiries reconsidered (2015)
Journal Article
Cummins, I. (2015). Discussing race, racism and mental health : two mental health inquiries reconsidered. International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, 8(3), 160-172. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHRH-08-2014-0017

The failings of “community care” in the late 1980s and early 1990s led to a number of Inquiries. This paper will examine one of these key issues that is rarely if ever at the forefront of the inquiry process – the experiences of young black men of Af... Read More about Discussing race, racism and mental health : two mental health inquiries reconsidered.

Happy like profilers: Gordon Burn, modernity and serial killing (2014)
Journal Article

Haggerty (2009) has
outlined the ways, in which, “serial killers” can be seen as a product of modernity. In
particular, he highlights the ways, in which, a symbiotic relationship has developed
between the media and “serial killers”. A significa... Read More about Happy like profilers: Gordon Burn, modernity and serial killing.

Bullying, violence, intimidation and suicide – why it’s time to rediscover dignity in prisons (2014)
Other
Cummins, I. (2014). Bullying, violence, intimidation and suicide – why it’s time to rediscover dignity in prisons

Crisis in mental health services sees vulnerable children taken into police custody (2014)
Other
Cummins, I. (2014). Crisis in mental health services sees vulnerable children taken into police custody

Probation for profit is a nail in the coffin for offender rehab (2014)
Other
Cummins, I. (2014). Probation for profit is a nail in the coffin for offender rehab

‘. . . And after the break’: Police officers’ views of TV crime drama (2014)
Journal Article
views of TV crime drama. Policing, 8(2), 205-211. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/pau014

The police procedural drama is a staple feature of the TV listings. Detective fiction dominates the best
sellers’ lists. Despite this, the day-to-day reality of policing is obscured from the vast majority of the public who have
little direct contac... Read More about ‘. . . And after the break’: Police officers’ views of TV crime drama.

It’s hard enough for women to report sexual abuse without the system letting them down (2014)
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Cummins, I. (2014). It’s hard enough for women to report sexual abuse without the system letting them down

Reading rehabilitates prisoners: it is not a privilege to be earned (2014)
Other
Cummins, I. (2014). Reading rehabilitates prisoners: it is not a privilege to be earned

Fact and fiction reveal how bleak life can be on a mental health ward (2014)
Other
Cummins, I. (2014). Fact and fiction reveal how bleak life can be on a mental health ward

The violences of men : David Peace’s 1974 (2014)
Journal Article
Cummins, I., & King, M. (2014). The violences of men : David Peace’s 1974. Culture, society & masculinities (Print), 6(1), 91-108

This article examines representations of hegemonic masculinity and the resultant “violences of men” in the context of literature on representations of men and masculinities and representations of policing in TV and films. Using bricolage as a theoret... Read More about The violences of men : David Peace’s 1974.

Prison suicides betray problems with our criminal justice system (2014)
Other
Cummins, I. (2014). Prison suicides betray problems with our criminal justice system