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Diverting tactics
- Author:
- HILLIS Gina
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 12.1.93, 1993, pp.24-27.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Describes how nurses from a regional secure unit in the West Midlands are working with other agencies to divert mentally disordered offenders away from the criminal justice system into appropriate health care.
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.
The mentally disordered offender in an era of community care: new directions in provision; proceedings of the 20th Cropwood conference 10-12 January 1990
- Editors:
- WATSON William, GROUNDS Adrian
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 250p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Contains conference papers on: future patterns of psychiatric services; future directions for mental health law; mentally ill offenders in the era of community care; new directions for service provision; black and minority ethnic people, mental health and criminal justice; the view from the probation service; the view from the prison medical service; diversion and discontinuance; the private sector; case management; and the view from the Department of Health.