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Aked, Hilary, Younis, Tarek and Heath-Kelly, Charlotte (2021) Racism, mental health and pre-crime policing : the ethics of Vulnerability Support Hubs. London: Medact.
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Abstract
This report examines ‘Vulnerability Support Hubs’, a mental health-related project run by UK counter-terrorism police. Thousands of individuals suspected of potential ‘extremism’ – a vague and racialised term which the government itself has tried and failed to legally define – have been assessed through these hubs. They blur the boundaries between security and care in some ethically problematic and dangerous ways and, in effect, deploy medicine as a security device – policing through mental health. In doing so, the hubs illuminate a disturbing trend in counterterrorism’s “turn to mental health”. The rise of strategies like Prevent, which claim to adopt a ‘public health’ approach because they intervene at the ‘pre-crime’ stage, turn political issues into individualised mental health problems of particular groups deemed ‘vulnerable’ to ‘radicalisation’
| Item Type: | Report | ||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Minorities -- Mental health services -- Great Britain, Racism -- Great Britain, Mental health services, Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Great Britain, Terrorism -- Psychological aspects | ||||||
| Publisher: | Medact | ||||||
| Place of Publication: | London | ||||||
| ISBN: | 9781838120542 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 2021 | ||||||
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| Number of Pages: | 56 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Copyright Holders: | Medact | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 2 August 2022 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 3 August 2022 | ||||||
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