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Diversion from Custody. II: Effect on hospital and prison resources
- Authors:
- JOSEPH Philip L.A., POTTER Mark
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 162, March 1993, pp.330-334.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
A scheme offering psychiatric assessment in two inner-London magistrates' courts generated extra hospital admissions and a reduction in remand to prisons.
Diversion from custody. I: Psychiatric assessment at the magistrates' court
- Authors:
- JOSEPH Philip L.A., POTTER Mark
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 162, March 1993, pp.325-330.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Reports on a project in two inner-London magistrates' courts which offered psychiatric assessment based at the courts, in order to prevent such assessment being dependent upon remand into custody.