1st Edition
Mentally Disordered Offenders Managing People Nobody Owns
188 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Managing the Mentally Disordered Offender presses the case for better health care of mentally disturbed law breakers, and the need to divert them from unnecessary imprisonment. Mentally disordered offenders present particular problems in our society, which wants both to sympathise and to punish. How do we get the balance right between sympathy towards their illness and genuine worries about... Read more
Preface Introduction 1 Mental disorder and social order: underlying themes in crime management 2 Public Inquiries in mental health (with particular reference to the Blackwood case at Broadmoor and the patient-complaints of Ashworth Hospital) 3 The police and the mentally disordered in the community 4 Diverting mentally disordered offenders from custody 5 Recreating mayhem? Developing understanding for social work with mentally disordered people 6 Multi-agency risk management of mentally disordered sex offenders: a probation case study 7 The Parole Board and the mentally disordered offender 8 Control and compassion: the uncertain role of Mental Health Review Tribunals in the management of the mentally ill 9 Thinking horses, not zebras 10 A balance of possibilities: some concluding notes on rights, risks and the mentally disordered offender
Biography
David Webb is Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Science at Nottingham Trent University. Robert Harris is Professor in the Department of Politics and Asian Studies at the University of Hull.
