Legal Implications of Taser Use and Prone Position on Excited Delirium Subjects

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-70381-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

Using case law, this book explores the controversial issues associated with excited or hyperactive delirium with severe agitation, including the appropriate use of tasers, and the inhumane practice of applying bodyweight pressure on subjects by placing them face down in the prone position, depriving them of the ability to breathe.

This study alerts society to the urgent need to treat excited delirium as a medical emergency, rather than a crime scene where a multi-agency collaborative effort can deescalate and manage these hyperthermic and paranoid individuals allowing them an opportunity to live. It also argues that the reaction of some US states, that are prohibiting the term ‘excited delirium’ and preventing officers from getting adequately trained, can have devastating results by increasing municipal liability for failure to train. It also fails those individuals undergoing serious mental health crises by way of excited delirium or seizures, who need to be served and protected as per the social contract theory.

Legal Implications of Taser Use and Prone Position on Excited Delirium Subjects will be of interest to legislators, attorneys, judges, police agencies, correctional facilities, and graduate level students in criminal justice, law, and the social sciences.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Worley, Vidisha Barua

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Medizin- und Gesundheitsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinrecht, Gesundheitsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Tod, Sterbehilfe: Soziale und Ethische Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Thanatologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Kriminalpsychologie, Forensische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Excited Delirium: A Myth or Reality. 2.The Controversial Taser: History, Legal Standards, and Guidelines. 3.Municipal Liability for Inappropriate Taser Use by Police Officers. 4.Taser Use by Police: Individual Officer Liability. 5.Taser Use on Pre-Trial Detainees. 6.Taser Use by Correctional Officers. 7.Taser’s Place in the Use of Force Continuum. 8.Excited Delirium, Prone Position, Hog-Tying, and Sudden Deaths. 9.Taser Use and Prone Position involving Excited Delirium Subjects. 10.Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Vidisha Barua Worley is Professor of Criminal Justice at Lamar University, USA, Editor-in-Chief of the Lamar University Division of Criminal Justice Newsletter, and an attorney licensed in New York, U.S.A. and in India. In 2016, Dr. Worley with her co-author Dr. Robert Michael Worley came up with the theory, the Economics of Crossing Over, which explains why some correctional officers cross over to the side of the inmates. The Support for Inmate Mistreatment Scale created by Drs. Robert Worley, Vidisha Worley, and Eric Lambert (2021) has been added to the list of psychological tests by the American Psychological Association.