Law Enforcement and Public Health published

TILES member Associate Professor Isa Bartkowiak-Théron announces the publication of an edited collection, Law Enforcement and Public Health: Partners for Community Safety and Wellbeing. Edited with colleagues from Australia, the United States and Scotland, this is the first comprehensive collection on law enforcement and public health.

This book brings together the views of multidisciplinary commentators on a wide range of issues and disciplines within the law enforcement and public health arena. The book addresses the conceptual aspects of the relationship as well as applied fields of collaboration, and the authors describe and analyse a range of service delivery examples taken from real-life instances of partnerships in action. Among the topics covered:

• ​Defund, dismantle or define
• Law enforcement, public health, and vulnerability
• Law enforcement and mental health: the missing middle
• The challenges of sustaining partnerships and the diversification of cultures
• Using public health concepts and metrics to guide policing strategy and practice
• Policing pandemics

In addition to contributions from TILES members, the book features other local contributions such as a practitioner-led chapter from the Drug Education Network, Hobart, co-authored with a member of the Australian Federal Police. This chapter discusses how law enforcement and the health sector can work together to achieve harm minimisation.

Isa has four co-authored chapters in the book, including a chapter showcasing the voices of practitioners, a chapter with TILES Director Professor Nicole Asquith on ‘Law enforcement, public health, and vulnerability’, and a chapter with TILES Emeritus Professor Roberta Julian on ‘Refugees: Sitting at the nexus of law enforcement and public health’.

Law Enforcement and Public Health: Partners for Community Safety and Wellbeing is available through Springer.

Isa is the leader of the Law Enforcement and Public Health stream at TILES.