About

I am a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Salford. My main research revolves around the experiences of people with mental health problems in the Criminal Justice system. This includes all areas of the CJS but I have focused on policing and mental illness.  I argue the CJS has become, in many incidences, the default provider of mental health care. In the area of social theory, I am influenced by Wacquant’s analysis of  processes of advanced marginality.and the development of the penal state. I have used has Jonathan Simon’s notion of “governing through crime”  to the analysis of the history of community care. I am exploring social work’s response to poverty. I am working with colleagues to explore societal obsession with violent crime. Like all right thinking people, I am slightly obsessed with the Wire.

Education

B.A. (Hons) Oriental Studies and Social and Political Sciences (Cambridge University ) 1983

Post-graduate Diploma Social Administration (Victoria University of Manchester).1984

Post-graduate Diploma Applied Social Studies (Liverpool University).1986

Post-graduate C.Q.S.W (Liverpool University). 1986

Mental Health Social Work ( Professional Award) ( CCETSW) 1996

M.A ( Econ) Philosophy and Society (Manchester University). 2002

Post-graduate Certificate Education (UCLAN). 2004

PhD Policing Madness: A case study analysis of the management of mental illness in custody settings in England and Wales (University of Salford) 2016

 

Blog Posts

    Publications

    Refereed Journal Articles

    Cummins, I 2018, ‘The impact of austerity on mental health service provision: A UK Perspective’, The Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health .

    Cummins, I and Foley, M (2018) Reporting Sexual Violence on Mental Health Units Journal of Adult Protection

    King, M & Cummins, I 2017, ‘”Take Me to the Moors: Mediatised Murder 40 Years on – An Analysis of Granada TV¿s See No Evil,’, International Journal of Social Science and Humanity .

    Cummins, I 2017, ‘Rereading Rosenhan ‘, Illness, Crisis and Loss.

    Cummins, I 2016, ‘Social work and the penal state ‘, European Journal of Social Work

    Cummins, I 2016, ‘Wacquant, urban marginality, territorial stigmatization and social work ‘, AOTEAROA New Zealand Social Work .

    Cummins, I 2016, ‘Putting Diagnosis Into Brackets: Franco Basaglia, Radical Psychiatry, and Contemporary Mental Health Services’, Illness, Crisis and Loss.  abstract

    Cummins, I 2016, ‘”From hero of the counterculture to risk assessment: a consideration of two portrayals of the ¿psychiatric patient’, Illness, Crisis and Loss.

    Cummins, I & Edmondson, D 2015, ‘Policing and Street Triage ‘, Journal of Adult Protection

    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

    Cummins, I & Foley, M & King, M 2015, ‘The Strange Case of Ian Stuart Brady and the MHRT ‘, Internet Journal of Criminology

    Cummins, I 2015, ‘Discussing race, racism and mental health: Two mental health inquiries reconsidered”‘, International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare.

    Cummins, I & Foley, M 2015, ‘Reading the Death of Mrs A: A Serious Case Review ‘, Journal of Adult Protection .

    Cummins, I 2015, ‘Reading Wacquant:Social Work and Advanced Marginality ‘, European Journal of Social Work .

    Cummins, I & King, M 2015, ‘The Criminal Entrepreneur in David Peace’s Red Riding’, Exploring Criminal and Illegal Enterprise: New Perspectives on Research, Policy & Practice (Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Research

    Cummins, I & King, M 2014, ‘Happy like Profilers: Gordon Burn, Modernity and Serial Killing’, International Journal of Criminology and Sociological Theory.

    Cummins, I & Foley, M & King, M 2014, ‘And after the break¿: police officers¿ views of TV crime drama ‘, Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice

    Cummins, I & King, M 2014, ‘The Violences of Men: David Peace’s 1974 ‘, Culture,Society and Masculinities , 6(1)

    Cummins, I 2013, ‘Policing and Mental Illness in the era of deinstutionalisation and mass incarceration: A UK Perspective’, International Journal of Criminology and Sociological Theory .

    King, M & Cummins, I 2013, ‘Our side of the Mirror: The Re(Construction) of 1970s Mascunility in David Peace’s Red Riding ‘, Sociology and Criminology : Open Access , 1(1), pp.1-7.

    King, M & Cummins, I 2013, ‘Dead Cities, Crows, the rain and their Ripper, The Yorkshire Ripper¿: The Red Riding Novels (1974, 1977, 1980, 1983) of David Peace as Lieux d¿horreur’, International Journal of Criminology and Sociological Theory.  abstract

    Cummins, I 2012, ‘Using Simon’s “Governing through crime” to explore the development of mental health policy in England and Wales since 1983 ‘, Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law.

    Cummins, I 2012, ‘Policing and Mental Illness Post Bradley ‘, Policing; A journal of Policy and Practice

    Cummins, I 2012, ‘Mental Health and Custody: A follow on study’, Journal of Adult Protection.

    Cummins, I 2011, ‘The Other Side of Silence; The role of the Appropriate Adult: post Bradley ‘, The Journal of Ethics and Social Welfare., . 5(3), pp.306-312.

    Cummins, I 2011, ”Distant Voices Still Lives: Reflections onthe media reporting of the cases of Christopher Clunis and Ben Silcock”, Ethnicity and Inequalities in Health and Social Care, 3(4).

    Cummins, I 2010, ‘Mental health services in the age of neo-liberalism’, Social Work and Social Policy in Transition

    Cummins, I 2010, ‘Blue Remembered Skills: Mental Health Awareness Training for Police Officers’, Journal of Adult Protection.

    Cummins, I 2008, ‘” A Place of Safety : self-harming behaviour in police custody “‘, Journal of Adult Protection

    Cummins, I 2007, ‘” Boats against the Current: Vulnerable adults in police custody” ‘, Journal of Adult Protection.

    Cummins, I 2006, ” A Path not Taken? Mentally disordered offenders and the Criminal Justice system ‘, Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law

    Authored Books/Monographs 

    Cummins, I 2016, Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System: A Social Work Perspective, Critical Publishing , Northwich , United Kingdom.

    Cummins, I 2017 Critical Psychiatry: A Biography  Critical Publishing , Northwich , United Kingdom.

    Cummins, I 2018 Poverty, Inequality and Social Work Policy Press Bristol, United Kingdom

    Cummins, I , Foley, M and King, M Serial Killers and the Media: The Moors Murder Legacy Palgrave Basingstoke – this is part of the Media and Crime series

    Cummins, I 2019 Mental Health Services Reimagined Policy Press Bristol, United Kingdom

    Book Chapters

    Cummins, I 2019 ‘Fineman, vulnerability and the myth of autonomy’, in: The Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work

    Cummins, I (2019) Social Work and Advanced Marginality in Class, Ethnicity and State in the Polarized Metropolis: Putting Wacquant to Work (edited by Jonathan Flint and Ryan Powell, Sheffield University)

    Cummins, I (2018) Madness and the Penal State  in Mental Health and Punishment ( editor Paul Taylor Chester University)

    Cummins, I (2018) Social Work and Austerity a UK Perspective – Contemporary Issues in European Social Work (ed Prof E. Cirano Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha)

    Cummins, I (2018) Policing Vulnerability in Policing and Mental Illness – International Perspectives ( ed J. McDaniel, University of Wolverhampton)

    Cummins, I 2016 ‘La police face a la maladie mentale: Ia problematique de la garde vue ‘, in: Police et psychiatrie , Editions Georg , Chene – Bourg , Switzerland , pp.63-78.

    King, M & Cummins, I 2015 ‘Sex on the Desk, Coke in the Toilet, Bribery and Corruption on the Streets. An Investigation of Spiral as a Representation of Contemporary Policing’, in: International Conference on Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, M. Plaisant and L. Zheng (eds) International Conference Proceedings of ICEHM and ERPUB, Nov 25-26, 2015, Paris, France , pp.75-80.

    Cummins, I 2015 ‘The Zito Trust’, in: Taylor, P., Corteen, K., and Morley, S.(Eds) (forthcoming 2015) Dictionary of Criminal Justice, Mental Health and Risk,, The Policy Press, Bristol, , UK:.

    Cummins, I 2014 ‘Policing Custody and mental illness’, in: Working Within the Forensic Paradigm , Routledge, Oxon , UK .

    Cummins, I & Foley, M & King, M 2013 ‘A Kind of Blue : Police Officers’ Views of TV Crime Drama ‘, in: . Researching the Police in the Nordic Countries. Proceedings from the Fourth Nordic Police Research Seminar. Reviews of the Police College of Finland No. 3, http://www.polamk.fi, Tampere, Finland, pp.29-37.

    Cummins, I & Mclaughlin, H 2011, ‘”The UK context for police and social work working together for better integration of immigrants” in: M.Danker, E.Heikkila, E.J.Gomez, H.McLaughlin, Reubsaet, S.Vanhanen (eds) Working Together for Better Integration – Immigrants, Police and Social Work. Finnish Immigration Studies Unit – Helsinki.’, in: Working Together for Better Integration – Immigrants, Police and Social Work##Finnish Immigration Studies Unit -#Helsinki#Finland, pp.null.

    Cummins, I 2010 ‘The relationship between mental institutions beds, prison population and the crimes rate’, in: Prison mental health: vision and reality, RCN , NACRO, CENTRE for MENTAL HEALTH , LONDON, UK, pp.22-25

     

    Upcoming Talks and Conferences

    ESRC Festival of Social Science – True Crime and Punishment Salford November 2018

    Memberships

    I am registered social worker with the HCPC (SW22294)

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