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Policing, Mental Illness and Media

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Beginning with the fatal police shootings of Roni Levi on Bondi Beach, Australia, in June 1997 and Danukul Mokmool some 20 years later outside Sydney’s Central Station, this introductory chapter situates the book’s interests within contemporary discussions of the ‘mediated visibility’ of policing and the recurrent controversies about police use of force in the context of interactions with vulnerable populations and marginalised communities. The chapter shows that, while the times and (police and media) technologies, along with social attitudes towards mental illness, may have substantially evolved in the intervening decades between Levi and Mokmool’s deaths, in Australia, the frequency of fatal confrontations between police and mentally ill individuals in crisis has not. At the same time, police continue to work against the backdrop of a fractured mental health system. The chapter offers some opening reflections on the role of today’s ‘variety of ‘journalisms’ and messaging platforms in mediating the struggle that occurs over meaning-making in relation to these critical incidents and outlines the aims and research approach adopted throughout the book.

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