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Mental health and crime
- Author:
- PEAY Jill
- Publisher:
- Routledge-Cavendish
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 232p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The book explores the nature of the relationship between mental disorder and crime. It then looks at the human rights and legal issues arising for those with mentally disordered offenders. Some of the permutations in the therapeutic process that can ensue when those with mental health problems are treated in the context of their offending behaviour are also discussed. Chapters include: mental health and crime; crime; mental disorder; are mental disorder and crime related?; types of crime; mental disorder and violence; symptoms and causality; causal mechanisms, criminology and mental disorder; human rights and mentally disordered offenders; deprivation of liberty; mental disorder and detention, a perspective from prison; the intersection between penalty and therapeutic detention, indeterminate sentences for public protection; medical treatment, offenders, patients and their capacity; individual and personal consequences, the case of smoking; impossible paradoxes; treatment, mental disorder, crime, responsibility and punishment; fitness to plead; dangerous and severe personality disorder; culpability and treatment, chasing dragons?; conclusions.
Decisions and dilemmas: working with mental health law
- Author:
- PEAY Jill
- Publisher:
- Hart
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 217p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
In the field of mental health law, we entrust decisions with consequences of the utmost gravity – decisions about compulsory medical treatment and the loss of liberty to doctors and approved social workers. Yet, how do these non-lawyers make decisions where the legitimacy of those decisions derives from law? This book examines the practical, ethical and legal terrain of duo-disciplinary decision-making: given identical cases, what dilemmas do psychiatrists and approved social workers encounter, do they reach the same or similar decisions and, most critically, how are those decisions justified? At a time of ferment in mental health law this book, through its narrative format, aids a better understanding of the dilemmas posed.
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.