Staff publications: Katrina Clifford

Dr Katrina Clifford has just had her latest book, Policing, Mental Illness and Media: The Framing of Mental Health Crisis Encounters and Police Use of Force, published by Palgrave Macmillan as part of the Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture series. The book examines the complexities of the relationship between policing and mental health, including the circumstances that lead to police use of force and the ways in which news media typically report deaths resulting from police contact with people in mental health crisis.

Katrina’s article, ‘News media framing of the Murray-Darling Basin ‘water theft’ controversy’ – a collaboration with Rob White, Distinguished Professor, Criminology, at the University of Tasmania – has also just been published by the Journal of Criminology.