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The community of strangers: supervision and the new right
- Author:
- ATKINSON Jacqueline
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 4(2), March 1996, pp.122-125.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The Queen's Speech at the opening of Parliament on 17 November 1994 introduced the Mental Health (Supervised Discharge) Bill which will seek to strengthen the powers of supervision for those detailed under the 1983 Mental Health Act. The debate over the legal control of people with mental health illness, which has previously focussed on confinement in hospital, now has to consider whether legal control over people living in the community, including supervision registers and supervised discharge, is acceptable. This article illustrated the issues involved in this debate.