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33 J. Forensic Psychiatry & Psych. 1 (2022)

handle is hein.journals/jnlofncpy33 and id is 1 raw text is: THE JOURNAL OF FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY & PSYCHOLOGY 2022, VOL. 33, NO. 1, 1-13 https://doi.org/10.1080/14789949.2021.1991979 Routledge Taylor & Francis Group Determining rates of death in custody in England and Wales Stella Botchway and Seena Fazel Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK ARTICLE HISTORY Received 20 May 2021; Accepted 7 October 2021 KEYWORDS Suicide; 'police custody'; detention; mortality; 'Mental Health Act'; prison Introduction In England and Wales, there has been considerable work over recent years to reduce the numbers of deaths in custody. Deaths of individuals in the custody of the state (Crown Prosecution Service, 2020) can occur in a number of settings. Here, we consider a death in custody to include deaths occurring in prison, in hospital for those detained under a mental health law, such as the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) in England, in or following police custody, and in Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs) or their equivalents. The collec- tion, analysis and dissemination of accurate data on deaths in custody helps to monitor trends, highlight vulnerable sub-populations and assess the impact of preventative measures. In England and Wales, this work is CONTACT Seena Fazel eSeena.fazel@psych.ox.ac.uk © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.