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A missed opportunity?: community sentences and the mental health treatment requirement
- Authors:
- KHANOM Husnara, SAMELE Chiara, RUTHERFORD Max
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 44p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR) is one of 12 options (‘requirements’) available to sentencers when constructing a Community Order or a Suspended Sentence Order. The MHTR can be given to an offender with mental health problems who does not require immediate compulsory hospital admission under the Mental Health Act. If they give their consent, the MHTR requires them to receive mental health treatment for a specified period. This report is based on an exploratory research project to examine the way in which the Mental Health Treatment Requirement is issued and the processes involved. It's secondary aims were: to explore the views of sentencers and identify the main problems that have prevented them from issuing the MHTR at the point of sentencing; to examine the Drug Rehabilitation Requirement for any lessons its operation may provide for improving the MHTR; to consider whether the MHTR is an effective, suitable and therapeutic form of diversion for offenders with mental health problems and to explore inter-agency working. Fifty six professionals working in the courts, in probation and in health services were interviewed about their experiences and knowledge of the MHTR. Results found many professionals lacked direct experience of the MHTR, and some were not aware of it at all. Professionals also had varied views about the purpose of the MHTR and the criteria for who should receive an MHTR were not clear.
Main issues in mental health and race
- Editors:
- NDEGWA David, OLAJIDE Dele
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 264p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Investigating a range of issues surrounding mental health and race, this book brings together analysis in this field from a wide variety of disciplines outside psychiatry. The contributors systematically review the literature in each discipline with relevance to the phenomena observed in the interaction between ethnic minorities and all aspects of psychiatry. Attempts are made to objectively evaluate the strength of evidence behind common opinions and assumptions and to identify current issues and future research needs. Both qualitative and quantitative research approaches and paradigms not traditionally used in this field are explored. The topics covered by this book are of importance, given current concerns about the polarization of views between service providers and black people and the disproportionate and coercive inception and experience of black people within psychiatric systems. Black people are over-represented in every situation in the UK where the mode of entry is compulsory, from prisons to psychiatric hospitals and secure establishments run by the social services.
Mental disorder and crime: coincidence, correlation and cause
- Author:
- CRICHTON John
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 10(3), December 1999, pp.659-677.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
This paper reviews the literature on the relationship between mental disorder and crime from 1997 and 1998. There is a brief examination of the importance of the topic and methodological challenges in researching the subject. An emerging theme is the importance of dual diagnosis, particularly substance misuse and psychosis, and violent crime.
Dual diagnosis of mental disorder and substance misuse
- Author:
- MCMURRAN Mary
- Publisher:
- NHS National Programme on Forensic Mental Health Research and Development
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 32p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Liverpool
Substance misuse that is comorbid with mental disorder may increase the risk of crime, and militate against effective treatment. It is therefore important that forensic mental health professionals understand the assessment and treatment of both substance misuse and mental disorder. Since mentally disordered offenders may be detained under classifications of personality (psychopathic) disorder, mental illness, and learning disability (mental impairment / severe mental impairment), all three disorders are addressed, and this paper is structured accordingly. Substance misuse includes intoxication, problematic use, and dependence, all of which are relevant to criminal behaviour, and the focus is on crimes related to the ingestion of substances.