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Policing Psychiatric Illness: An Organisational Paradox for Health & Law (2024)
Journal Article
Wondemaghen, M. (2024). Policing Psychiatric Illness: An Organisational Paradox for Health & Law. International journal of law and psychiatry, 97, Article 102017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2024.102017

This conceptual article examines the organisational crisis in England's National Health Service in light of the recently launched model of policing called Right Care Right Person introduced to reduce police hours spent dealing with mental health cris... Read More about Policing Psychiatric Illness: An Organisational Paradox for Health & Law.

The UK Covid Inquiry should examine the politics of fear (2024)
Digital Artefact
Wondemaghen, M. (2024). The UK Covid Inquiry should examine the politics of fear. [Essay]

Opening paragraph:
Recently, the UK Covid Inquiry heard testimony that the BBC consistently misrepresented Covid risk in order to boost public support for lockdown. Yet, to date, the Inquiry has not asked vital questions about the practices of the B... Read More about The UK Covid Inquiry should examine the politics of fear.

The print press and its politicization of public health: The case of COVID-19 (2023)
Journal Article
Wondemaghen, M. (2023). The print press and its politicization of public health: The case of COVID-19. Journalism, 24(12), 2821-2840. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849231200137

This article is interested in the ways in which a serious public health issue, the COVID-19 pandemic, was used to categorize and reconfigure sections of the British citizenry into conformists and deviants. In constructing these categories, the print... Read More about The print press and its politicization of public health: The case of COVID-19.

Policing mental illness: Police use of section 136 – Perspectives from police and mental-health nurses (2021)
Journal Article
Wondemaghen, M. (2021). Policing mental illness: Police use of section 136 – Perspectives from police and mental-health nurses. Medicine, Science and the Law, 61(4), 266-274. https://doi.org/10.1177/0025802421993363

Ideological shifts in mental health-care policy such as deinstitutionalisation have meant police have had to make decisions about the care of persons with a mental-health crisis. This study examines how police in five English counties respond to cris... Read More about Policing mental illness: Police use of section 136 – Perspectives from police and mental-health nurses.

Homeland and its use of bipolar disorder for sensationalist and dramatic effect (2018)
Journal Article
Wondemaghen, M. (2019). Homeland and its use of bipolar disorder for sensationalist and dramatic effect. Social Semiotics, 29(2), 131-144. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2017.1422900

When a lead character in a critically acclaimed and award-winning television programme is depicted as a proficient and meticulous heroine with a mental disorder, it is crucial to examine if this reflects a change in the media depiction of people with... Read More about Homeland and its use of bipolar disorder for sensationalist and dramatic effect.

Insanity Constructs (2017)
Book Chapter
Wondemaghen, M. (2017). Insanity Constructs. In M. D. White (Ed.), The Insanity Defense: Multidisciplinary Views on its History, Trends, and Controversies (133-152). Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO

Testing Equality: Insanity, Treatment Refusal and the CRPD (2017)
Journal Article
Wondemaghen, M. (2018). Testing Equality: Insanity, Treatment Refusal and the CRPD. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 25(2), 174-185. https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2017.1371575

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is considered to be a radical international treaty that affords persons with disability recognition and protection of equal rights in socio-cultural, political, medical and legal arenas. Drawi... Read More about Testing Equality: Insanity, Treatment Refusal and the CRPD.

Evaluating Predominant Causes of Insanity in Cases of Drug-Induced Psychoses (2015)
Journal Article
Wondemaghen, M. (2015). Evaluating Predominant Causes of Insanity in Cases of Drug-Induced Psychoses. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, 14(1), 76-84. https://doi.org/10.1080/14999013.2015.1019682

The insanity defense operates on the basis that individuals who do not have the capacity to understand the consequences or wrongness of their action should not be held criminally responsible because there is a defect of reason. The defect must arise... Read More about Evaluating Predominant Causes of Insanity in Cases of Drug-Induced Psychoses.

Walter White: The psychopath to whom we can all relate? (2014)
Book Chapter
Wondemaghen, M. (2015). Walter White: The psychopath to whom we can all relate?. In J. Blevins, & D. Wood (Eds.), The Methods of Breaking Bad: Essays on Narrative, Character and Ethics. Jefferson, NC. USA: McFarland

Depressed but not legally mentally impaired (2014)
Journal Article
Wondemaghen, M. (2014). Depressed but not legally mentally impaired. International journal of law and psychiatry, 37(2), 160-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2013.11.010

This article examines the mental impairment (insanity) defense in the Australian state of Victoria and argues that the defense is successful only when offenders suffer from psychotic mental illnesses. This raises the question about how non-psychotic... Read More about Depressed but not legally mentally impaired.

Legal narratives as significant news sources about mental illness and violent crime (2013)
Journal Article
Wondemaghen, M. (2014). Legal narratives as significant news sources about mental illness and violent crime. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, 38(4), 343-372. https://doi.org/10.1080/01924036.2013.848219

Media coverage about people affected by mental illness is an area of research that is extensively examined. Many scholars argue that the media depicts people with mental illness as inherently violent and dangerous within sensational narratives. These... Read More about Legal narratives as significant news sources about mental illness and violent crime.

Media construction of a school shooting as a social problem (2013)
Journal Article
Wondemaghen, M. (2014). Media construction of a school shooting as a social problem. Journalism, 15(6), 696-712. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884913496498

The Monash University shooting which occurred in 2002, in Melbourne Australia, is analysed using claims-making theory and the four-stage natural history model of social problems. As Spector and Kitsuse argue, social problems 'are what people think th... Read More about Media construction of a school shooting as a social problem.