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, 176 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 de-escalate and manage these hyperthermic and paranoid individuals allowing them an opportunity to live. It also argues that the reaction of some U.S. 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

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

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 Pretrial 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, Beaumont, Texas, U.S.A. and is a licensed attorney in the state of New York, U.S.A. and in India. Dr. Worley is the lead editor of a two-volume set of encyclopedia titled, American Prisons and Jails: An Encyclopedia of Controversies and Trends (2019). She has published extensively on civil liability of police and correctional officers for the inappropriate use of Tasers in the United States.