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You're on trial
- Authors:
- HOLLINS Sheila, MURPHY Glynis, CLARE Isabel
- Publishers:
- Gaskell, St. George's Hospital Medical School
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 40p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Booklet designed to provide guidance for people with learning difficulties or mental health needs caught up in the criminal justice system.
The entry of mentally disordered people to the criminal justice system
- Authors:
- ROBERTSON Graham, PEARSON Richard, GIBB Robert
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 169, 1996, pp.172-180.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Looks at a study to investigate what factors are associated with the entry of obviously mentally ill people in the criminal justice system. Results found that of all police detainees observed 1.4% were found to be acutely ill. Diversion of obviously ill detainees was common practice. The factor most strongly associated with entry to the criminal justice system was the presence of violence at the time of arrest. Other factors were the persistence of (petty) offending and the operation of court warrants issued as a result of the person's failure to appear at court when required to do so. Concludes that both police and courts are well aware of the inappropriateness of custody for acutely ill people and efforts are made to divert people out of the criminal justice system. Persistent petty offenders are often being recycled from the street to police station and court and back to the street without the benefit of care. Recommends a dedicated facility be provided in central London to meet this need.
A sense of justice
- Author:
- BULLIVANT Marian
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 4.12.96, 1996, pp.44-45.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
The author tells how she set up a system to identify and support people with mental health problems who come into contact with the criminal justice system in Liverpool.
Diversionary tactics
- Author:
- STRONG Susannah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.6.96, 1996, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Asks if people with a mental illness who have been picked up by the police are given the help they need. Finds, despite many measures, they are still getting a raw deal from the criminal justice system.
Mental illness in the family: issues and trends
- Editors:
- ABOSH Beverley, COLLINS April
- Publisher:
- University of Toronto Press
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 171p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Toronto
Contains chapters on: programme planning; families and mental illness; a model of familial relationships in families with a member with mental health problems; helping families cope with mental health problems and the criminal justice system; the loss of a child to mental illness; the forgotten sibling; the impact of parental affective disorders on families; parents with mental health problems; the effects on a 6 year old child of a parent with mental health problems; and Dyadic Circularity in the mother-infant relationship.
Law for Northern Ireland social workers
- Editor:
- WHITE Ciaran
- Publisher:
- Gill and Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 352p.
- Place of publication:
- Dublin
Practical text aimed at social workers, social work students and all related statutory and voluntary workers coming into contact with Northern Ireland law in a social work context.
The release of forensic patients
- Author:
- GREEN Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Australian Social Work, 49(4), December 1996, pp.47-53.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Working with persons who become hospitalised in maximum security environments may seem incompatible with social work values, such as self-determination. Social workers can contribute to the humane and effective treatment of such persons as by actively participating in multidisciplinary treatment, as well as by providing the necessary perspective of social justice. A central and often problematic issue in the treatment of forensic patients is their release from hospital. To date little attention has been directed toward understanding the factors mental health staff taking into account in making release judgments. To examine factors which staff use in judging suitability for release, forty mental health staff were interviewed. Content analysis of the constructs generated by participants revealed that the five most commonly used constructs were mental health factors. Practice and research applications arising out of the research are also discussed.
Risk assessment and management in criminal justice and psychiatry
- Author:
- PRINS Herschel
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 7(1), May 1996, pp.42-62.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
This article places risk assessment and management in criminal justice and mental health in brief historical context. It then considers concepts of risk and dangerousness, before examining the extent to which being 'wise after the event' may be helpful. Ways in which risk assessment and management might be improved and attempts to de-mystify the process are then discussed.