Law Enforcement and Public Health

lt;p>Dr. Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron, PhD, (University of Tasmania, Australia) specialises in socio-legal studies, with a particular interest in police interaction with vulnerable people. She is the lead senior researcher on the vulnerability, police education, and law enforcement and public health research streams at the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies. In her teaching capacity, she coordinates the Tasmania Police Recruit Course for the University, within which she teaches on police interactions with vulnerable people and the related legislation. An award winning educator, she is the recipient of University of Tasmania Teaching Excellence Medal. Within the Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association, Isabelle heads up the Education Special Interest Group, and sits on the First Responders Mental Health Special Interest Group, as well as the Prosecutors Group. She has been the deputy chair of the Tasmanian Social Science Human Research Ethics Committee since 2018. She occasionally consults on the UNODC on vulnerability matters and international curricula. Isabelle sits on various international journal editorial committees, and on international and Australian charitable, professional and research governance boards, such as Connect42 (a Tasmanian charity that aims to promote literacy as a public health issue), the Australian Institute of Police Management Ethical Review and Research Governance Advisory Committee, and the Australia New Zealand Society of Criminology. She sits on the Australian Crime Prevention Council as the executive member for Tasmania, and on the Tasmanian Sentencing Advisory Council. She has two amazingly wonderful children, and is often seen with knitting needles in hand.

Staff Sergeant James Clover, MPA, has been responsible for a variety of roles in policing including undercover operations, gangs, high-risk offender assessment and management, training, hate crime investigations, and combating human trafficking and sexual exploitation. He has represented Canadian police education and training in his previous roles as a National Advisory to Police Training and the Chair for the implementation of the National Police Training Inventory. He has conducted research and provided consultation to several countries, including Tampa Florida (2014) and Melbourne Australia (2012).  In 2018, James was awarded the 2018 International Policing Award from the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police.  James was named a Police Fellow with the Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association in 2020.  Since 2015, he has instructed within the Department of Public Safety & Justice Studies, Faculty of Health and Community Studies at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is not uncommon to see James working at his desk with one or two pugs sitting on his lap.

Denise Martin, PhD, is a Professor of Criminology at the University of Abertay in the city of Dundee, Scotland. She has had a long career as a researcher in the field of Criminal Justice and her work has involved working with vulnerable groups and practitioners across a range of issues. Her interests are primarily around partnership working and examining ways to effectively support communities resolve issues around crime and anti-social behaviour. She also has a strong interest in learning and education in the field of criminal Justice specifically leadership and organizational change. She has worked on projects focusing on alternatives to custody for young offenders (with the Children's Society), understanding the experience of school aged children's crime victimization and evaluating coaching for women offenders.  Professor Martin has also been awarded funding from a variety of organizations, including the Scottish Prison Service for a project of prison officer professionalization, the Home Office to examine emergency service collaboration and Police Scotland to evaluate a Nationa

PART I - HISTORICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUES.- Chapter 1. Conceptual and practice tensions in LEPH: Public health approaches to policing and Police and public health collaborations.- Chapter 2. The historical public health and social work role of the police.- Chapter 3. Defund, Dismantle or Define.- Chapter 4. Law Enforcement, Public Health, and Vulnerability.- Chapter 5. Challenges and Opportunities in Educating Law Enforcement Officers: 2020 and Beyond.- Chapter 6. Historical and Conceptual Issues: Community Voices.- PART II - LAW ENFORCEMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH: PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLABORATIONS IN PRACTICE.- Chapter 7 - Improving Community Outcomes and Social Equity Through Leveraged Police Leadership.- Chapter 8. Law enforcement and mental health: The missing middle.- Chapter 9. The challenges of sustaining partnerships and the diversification of cultures.- Chapter 10. Using public health concepts and metrics to guide policing strategy and practice: The case for an academic center forpolicing and public health.- Chapter 11. Law Enforcement and Public Health Partnerships and Collaborations in Practice: Community Voices.- PART III - SPECIAL ISSUES IN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH.- Chapter 12. Moving Beyond the War on Drugs? The Rhetoric and Reality of Harm Minimisation in Australia.- Chapter 13. Refugees: sitting at the nexus of law enforcement and public health. Chapter 14. First responders stress and resilience as a matter of the public health: A Scientific Approach to Police Commander's Testimonial about Police Work Challenges following Practical Implications.- Chapter 15. Law enforcement and public health: a framework for analysis of LEPH in lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs).- Chapter 16. Policing pandemics: developing effective policing responses during health emergencies.

"This book is a collection of papers on topics where the law enforcement and public health industries intersect operationally and in a public policy sense. ... This is an excellent reference work for police management, project and policy officers etc., who are interested in better aligning the efforts of policing with other public and private sector agencies, especially in complex policy spaces such as health and community wellbeing." (APJ, Australian Police Journal, Vol. 76 (2), June, 2022)

“This book is a collection of papers on topics where the law enforcement and public health industries intersect operationally and in a public policy sense. … This is an excellent reference work for police management, project and policy officers etc., who are interested in better aligning the efforts of policing with other public and private sector agencies, especially in complex policy spaces such as health and community wellbeing.” (APJ, Australian Police Journal, Vol. 76 (2), June, 2022)