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The introduction of supervision registers in England and Wales: a risk communications analysis
- Author:
- BAKER Estella
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 8(1), May 1997, pp.15-35.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
Following a series of incidents in the early 1990s in which psychiatric patients living in the community committed serious harm to themselves or others, the Department of Health instructed health authorities to establish registers for such patients. This article considers the actions of the Department of Health from a risk communications perspective and argues that the initiative should be understood as, first, an attempt to deflect attention from the unacceptable consequences of community care, and , second, a response to the wider electoral concerns of the government.