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Development of a specialised forensic service for women with learning disability: the first three years
- Authors:
- BERBER Elizabeth, BOER Harm
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Forensic Practice, 6(4), December 2004, pp.10-20.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
In recent years there has been growing interest in the fate of women with mental disorder who come into contact with the criminal justice system. Women-only services have begun to be developed in generic psychiatric settings, spurred on by the national service framework which set a time limit for the development of segregated in-patient facilities. Forensic services for those with learning disability have been slower to take up the challenge of how best to place women with learning disability who offend and require an in-patient secure environment. Describes how one such service attempted to rise to this challenge and build a service for this often neglected group.