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The Criminal Procedure (Insanity and Unfitness to Plead) Act 1991
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Home Office
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Home Office
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 34p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Home Office notes and copy of the Act.
Dangerous behaviour, the law and mental disorder
- Author:
- PRINS Herschel
- Publisher:
- Tavistock
- Publication year:
- 1986
- Pagination:
- 258p., tables, bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Criminal Justice Act 1991: mentally disordered offenders
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Circular concerning the provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 for dealing with people suffering from a mental disorder and concerned in particular with the changes affecting the courts and those who work with this user group who may appear in court proceedings.
Adults, mental illness and incapacity: convergence and overlap in legal regulation
- Author:
- BARTLETT Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 25(4), December 2003, pp.341-353.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
While not entirely congruent, there will be substantial overlap between the classes of individuals governed by the proposed Mental Incapacity and Mental Health Acts, and by the court's inherent jurisdiction. This paper argues that the mental health proposals are procedurally strong but substantively weak, while the incapacity reforms are, largely, the reverse. For individuals who may be subject to either legal régime, therefore, the safeguards of one statute may be avoided by resort to the other. Lying across both reforms is the court's inherent jurisdiction. It remains to be seen whether or how the scope of this jurisdiction will be developed in the event that the legislative reforms are passed.
Limits to the value of mental health review tribunals for offender patients
- Authors:
- TAYLOR Pamela J., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 174, February 1999, pp.164-169.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Reform of mental health legislation for England and Wales is due. Mental Health Review Tribunals (MHRTs) offer an important check in the balance between patient and public rights. This article evaluates the quantity and outcome of MHRTs in special (high-security) hospitals. Concludes that special hospital MHRTs result in few changes in patient status. A probable need for improvement in the evidence put before an MHRT was found. Legislation reformers should consider an extension of MHRT powers to order transfer between levels of security.
A companion guide to mentally disordered offenders
- Author:
- STONE Nigel
- Publisher:
- Owen Wells
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 158p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Ilkley
People with mental health problems provide practitioners with some of their greatest problems. Not only because of the intrinsic difficulty of dealing with disturbed users, but also because of the wealth of legislation that must also be considered. Provides a clear, easy to use guide to the many legal problems that these users present. Covers: police investigation and discretion; discontinuance by the Crown Prosecution Service; remands and reports; unfitness to plead; insanity, diminished responsibility and infanticide; hospital orders; psychiatric probation and supervision orders; supervision and treatment orders; guardianship orders; mentally disordered prisoners; restricted patients; supervision registers; and powers under the Mental Health Act 1983. Includes a drugs glossary.
It's a new order, but is it justice?
- Author:
- GOULD Nick
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 23.4.92, 1992, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Under the Criminal Procedure (Insanity and Unfitness to Plead) Act 1991, social workers will soon have a role in ensuring that mentally ill offenders get a fair trial; but they will also become involved in enforcement, which might lead to compulsory treatment in the community.
Guidance on responding to people with mental ill health or learning disabilities
- Author:
- NATIONAL POLICING IMPROVEMENT AGENCY
- Publisher:
- National Policing Improvement Agency
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 208p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guidance provides advice to help police respond more effectively to people who are experiencing mental ill health or who have a learning disability. The guidance is a comprehensive document, providing advice on needs that arise in either a criminal justice capacity (where the person is a victim, witness, suspect or offender) or in a health care capacity (where the police may be acting in support of others who are dealing with someone experiencing a mental health crisis). The separate sections of the guidance cover: general operational guidance; mental health principles; operational police responses to victims and witnesses; use of police powers under the Mental Health Act 1983 and Mental Capacity Act 2005; operational police responses to suspects and offenders; and managing police responses. An aim of the guidance is to support more people with mental ill health being accommodated in health facilities rather than in police custody through better implementation of the Mental Health Act 1983. It also aims to provide an improved response to victims, witnesses, suspects and offenders leading to a reduction in repeat victimisation and offending, and increased reporting to the police of crimes against people with mental ill health or learning disabilities (including discrimination, victimisation and harassment).
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.
Using a model to guide data gathering, interpretation, and communication in capital mitigation evaluations
- Authors:
- MARCZYK Geoffrey, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice, 3(3), 2003, pp.89-103.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia
The use of a model can have a direct impact on several areas of forensic mental health assessment, and is important in gathering and interpreting data, reasoning about the results and conclusions, and communicating the results of such an assessment. The following report and accompanying discussion illustrates the application of a forensic model in the context of a defense-initiated capital mitigation evaluation under Pennsylvania State law. The first step in employing a model was to identify the relevant legal standard, which required the forensic clinician to assess character traits, contextual circumstances, extreme mental or emotional disturbance, and mental and cognitive deficits that might have had a direct impact on the defendant's ability to conduct or conform his conduct to the requirements of the law at the time of the alleged offense. In the second part of the model, these clinical characteristics were related to the tasks and functional abilities that are part of the relevant legal question. Finally, using the third step of the model, the forensic clinician assesses the strength of the causal connection between the existence of mental and cognitive deficits and the functional abilities related to the relevant legal question. In addition to improving the overall quality and accuracy of the evaluation, the use of this type of model is consistent with the guidelines and substantive criteria for capital mitigation articulated by the United States Supreme Court. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street Binghamton, NY 13904-1580)