Policing and public health: Exploring new ways to unlock the social cure

警务和公共卫生：探索解决社会问题的新方法

基本信息

批准号：
ES/X003434/1
负责人：
Arabella Kyprianides
金额：
$ 30.36万
依托单位：
University College London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2023
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2023 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX003434%2F1
关键词：
Policing public health Exploring new

项目摘要

Police activity is disproportionately directed towards people on the margins of society. While many groups of people are likely to become the objects of police attention, the focus of this research will be on people with poor mental health who interact with police, as victims, witnesses, and offenders. On current estimates there has been a rise in mental-health related demand in recent years, and police now spend up to 40% of their time dealing, in some way, with people with mental health problems. Police are often the 'service of last resort', and have always been involved with people in various forms of mental health crisis. More broadly, the links between poverty, ill-health and crime mean that those who interact with officers - for whatever reason - are disproportionately likely to suffer from a wide range of mental (and physical) conditions. But austerity-driven cuts to health and other services have in many cases left police as a service of first resort, the only agency available to respond to calls for help from people in distress. Yet, little is known about whether police activity exacerbates or alleviates the mental health problems faced by the people that officers encounter. Moreover, how police activity affects the social and geographic spread of mental health problems has barely been considered. Little is known about how police encounters influence well-being, particularly in the UK. This project will address this important gap in current understanding of police-public interactions by investigating the ways that policing can affect people's mental health. Drawing upon the social identity approach to health, theories of intergroup relations, and procedural justice theory (PJT), the three objectives of the research are (a) to investigate whether and why police activity is higher in areas where people face more mental health problems; (b) to work with client groups and the police to find out how the police respond to people's various mental health presentations and what the journey thereafter looks like; and (c) to feed into the design of an intervention that will focus on helping the police manage the interactions they have with people experiencing mental health problems and help them to reduce re-offending amongst this group. Ultimately, the end goal of the project is to mitigate harmful consequences of policing for - and by doing so, improve the mental well-being of - people who have high levels of contact with police.The proposed project will take a multi-methods approach and involve both quantitative and qualitative strands of work, packaged into three work programs reflecting the three project objectives. By undertaking these WPs, the project will advance theoretical understanding of the processes through which police encounters influence well-being among those with poor mental health and 'difficult to reach' groups; theoretical knowledge that will provide applied benefit for a range of different stakeholders including the College of Policing, the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS; and other police forces in the UK and overseas), the Mayor's Office for Policing And Crime (MOPAC), and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).

警察活动过多地针对社会边缘人群。虽然许多人群可能成为警方关注的对象，但这项研究的重点将放在与警察互动的心理健康状况不佳的人，如受害者、证人和罪犯。根据目前的估计，近年来与心理健康相关的需求有所增加，警察现在花费高达 40% 的时间以某种方式处理有心理健康问题的人。警察往往是“最后手段”，并且一直参与各种形式的心理健康危机的人们。更广泛地说，贫困、健康状况不佳和犯罪之间的联系意味着那些与警官打交道的人——无论出于何种原因——极有可能患有各种精神（和身体）疾病。但在许多情况下，紧缩导致的医疗和其他服务削减使得警察成为首选服务，也是唯一可以回应遇难者求助的机构。然而，人们对警察的活动是否会加剧还是减轻警察遇到的人所面临的心理健康问题知之甚少。此外，警察活动如何影响心理健康问题的社会和地理传播几乎没有被考虑到。人们对警察遭遇如何影响幸福感知之甚少，尤其是在英国。该项目将通过调查治安影响人们心理健康的方式来解决目前对警察与公众互动的理解中的这一重要差距。借鉴健康的社会认同方法、群体间关系理论和程序正义理论 (PJT)，该研究的三个目标是 (a) 调查在人们面临更多心理健康问题的地区警察活动是否以及为何更高; (b) 与客户团体和警方合作，了解警方如何应对人们的各种心理健康陈述以及此后的旅程是什么样的； (c) 纳入干预措施的设计，重点帮助警方管理与有心理健康问题的人的互动，并帮助他们减少该群体的再次犯罪。最终，该项目的最终目标是减轻警察对与警察密切接触的人造成的有害后果，并以此改善他们的心理健康。拟议的项目将采取多种方法并涉及定量和定性工作，分为三个工作计划，反映三个项目目标。通过开展这些工作计划，该项目将增进对警察遭遇影响心理健康状况不佳和“难以接触”群体福祉的过程的理论理解；理论知识将为一系列不同的利益相关者提供应用利益，包括警务学院、大都会警察局（MPS；以及英国和海外的其他警察部队）、市长警务和犯罪办公室（MOPAC）以及英国健康安全局 (UKHSA)。