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'Dangerous people': reasoned proposals or rhetoric?
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities for Nursing Health and Social Care, 3(4), December 1999, pp.183-184.
This editorial discusses the government's announced proposals to deal with 'dangerous people' who present a risk to the public. The proposals will be a departure from current legislation, which recommends that people suffering from mental disorders should not be drawn into the criminal justice system unnecessarily. It could allow the Court to compulsorily detain any person with a severe personality disorder and who present a risk to the public, regardless of whether they have committed a criminal offence. Discusses the problems with this approach.
Considerations for informing safer sex education work with men with learning disabilities
- Author:
- CAMBRIDGE Paul
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 27(4), December 1999, pp.123-126.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article reviews HIV prevention and safer sex education work with men with learning disabilities, identifying considerations for responding to HIV in its third decade. While the effective targeting of HIV prevention remains with men with learning disabilities who have sex with men, new considerations are also emerging from experience with sex education, staff training and HIV prevention more widely, helping reshape and inform service responses and individuals work.
Vulnerable people as victims of crime: recent developments in England and Wales
- Author:
- WILLIAMS Brian
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adult Protection, 1(2), November 1999, pp.22-25.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Starting from the standpoint that adult protection has significant overlaps with a range of other areas of interest, this article considers how criminal justice systems in key countries are responding to the challenge of vulnerable adults. American, Canadian and UK legal frameworks and recent practice are examined in relation to vulnerable adults as victims, witnesses and perpetrators. Particular attention is paid to the implementation of the Crime and Disorder Act, 1988.
Adult protection: an overview of research and policy
- Authors:
- BROWN Hilary, KINGSTON Paul, WILSON Barry
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adult Protection, 1(1), August 1999, pp.6-16.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article considers the emergence of adult protection as a significant issue for health and welfare professionals. It presents a range of definitions and dilemmas alongside a comprehensive review of how abuse is manifested. A brief review of the latest research is followed by principles of good practice.
Caring for young people and the vulnerable: guidance for preventing abuse of trust
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Home Office
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Home Office
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The guidance in this short booklet is intended to apply to those caring for young people or vulnerable adults in both paid and unpaid work, including volunteers, regardless of whether they are in the public, private, voluntary or volunteering sectors. The guidance itself has no statutory force but contains principles of good practice. It is intended to help organisations draw up their own codes of conduct on how to provide safeguards and prevent abuse of trust involving some form of sexual activity.