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Criminal justice and the mentally disordered
- Editor:
- PEAY Jill
- Publisher:
- Dartmouth
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 585p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Comprehensive collection of papers dealing with the treatment of people with mental health problems in the criminal justice system from a legal point of view. Part 1 looks at mental disorder and crime and causation, correlation and consequences. Part 2 examines the methodological and conceptual problems with conflicting legal and historical models of mental illness. Part 3 looks at aspects of process, focusing specifically on the mechanisms of the criminal justice system. Part 4 deals with the ethics of forensic psychiatry and the debate around whether psychiatrists should engage with the criminal courts. Part 5 is on dangerousness and psychopathic disorder and the prediction of violence.
Research findings on the association between mental disorder and violence/homicide
- Author:
- STROUD Julia
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Europe, 4(1), 1997, pp.55-58.
- Publisher:
- Russell House
Discusses the problematic issue of researching the relationship between violence and mental disorder.
Report of the Department of Health and Home Office Working group on Psychopathic Disorder
- Authors:
- REED John, chair
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health/Great Britain. Home Office
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 62p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report from a joint working group with the remit to review the treatment options for people with personality (psychopathic) disorders, their appropriate locations and the arrangements for placing offenders in need of treatment.
Madness and murder
- Author:
- MORRALL Peter
- Publisher:
- Whurr
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 242p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Attempts to analyse the incidents of homicides perpetrated by people deemed to have mental health problems. Discusses whether public anxiety over dangerous mentally disordered people being free in the community is justified and the consequences of recent changes in mental health policy and law. Offers a critique of the psychiatric disciplines of medicine and nursing and their defence of current practices. Concludes that such homicides are a public health issue that should be taken seriously and whose rate has the potential to be checked.
Medication, non-compliance and mentally disordered offenders: the role of non-compliance in homicide by people with mental illness and proposals for future policy; a study of independent inquiry reports
- Author:
- HOWLETT Michael
- Publisher:
- Zito Trust
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 129p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Research study looking at homicides committed by people with mental health problems who were receiving treatment from mental health services and whose non-compliance with medication was subsequently considered to have been a major contributory factor. Contains chapters on: the independent inquiries; treatment in the community without consent; non-compliance; non-compliance and the independent inquiries; statistics on homicide by people with mental health problems; a summary of current thinking on mental illness and violent behaviour; and the importance of medication in the treatment of schizophrenia.
Dangerous people
- Editor:
- WALKER Nigel
- Publisher:
- Blackstone
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 202p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The last few years have seen increasing attention given to cases where men, women and children have suffered serious harm from offenders who are known to have done similar harm on previous occasions. Examines how the courts, Parole Boards, and mental health tribunals and probation services deal with violent of sexual offenders who are regarded as 'dangerous'. Articles cover: ethical and other problems; violence and mental disorder; when violence is the norm; sexual molesters; bailing and sentencing the dangerous; psychiatric inpatient violence; the management and discharge of violent patients; parole and the dangerous offender; supervising the dangerous in the community.
Probation practice
- Authors:
- JONES Alison, et al
- Publisher:
- Pitman
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 173p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Deals with the day-to-day work of probation officers. Addresses issues of working with offenders involved in drug and alcohol abuse, those with mental health problems, violent offenders and sex offenders. Offers theoretical perspectives and practical strategies to maximise effectiveness.
A review of the research literature on serious violent and sexual offenders
- Authors:
- CONNELLY Clare, WILLIAMSON Shanti
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive. Central Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 125p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Aims to provide a summary of current and recent UK and international literature on the sentencing of dangerous offenders and the subsequent management of these offenders, whether in hospital or prison settings, and upon release into the community. The research is divided by country, split up into those who use a community protection approach, those who use a clinical approach, and other jurisdictions. It concludes with an examination of the issue of compliance with the European Convention on Human Rights.