The Mentally Disordered Offender in an Era of Community Care: New Directions in ProvisionThe care and management of mentally disordered offenders poses a major challenge to criminal justice agencies and psychiatric services. These patients, 'the people nobody owns', are particularly vulnerable to political and professional change and as psychiatric services become increasingly community-based, the task of meeting the needs of the offender, as well as expectations of public protection, becomes a more difficult prospect. This book brings together the papers and a summary of the discussion presented at a Cropwood Round Table conference organized by the Institute of Criminology and the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Cambridge. Seeking to define future needs and directions in legal and service provisions, it includes perspectives from the fields of criminology, sociology and social psychiatry, and contributions from practitioners and administrators. Remarkable for the tenacity and depth with which the expert contributors address the problems, this is essential reading for all professionals working in the psychiatric and criminal justice systems with this frequently marginalized client group. Through a searching examination of the situation within one jurisdiction it points the way to service developments, improved care management and research opportunities that have universal applications. |
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Contents
Future pattern of psychiatric services Douglas Bennett | 11 |
Future directions for mental health law Sir John Wood | 23 |
A criminological perspective the influence of fashion | 41 |
The mentally abnormal offender in the era of community | 61 |
a personal view | 78 |
Defining need and evaluating services John Wing | 90 |
Black people mental health and the criminal justice system | 102 |
A view from the prison medical service Rosemary Wool | 127 |
diversion and discontinuance | 135 |
A view from the private sector Mike LeeEvans | 149 |
Case management Geoff Shepherd | 166 |
A view from the Department of Health John Reed | 177 |
Future directions for research William Watson | 191 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Mentally Disordered Offender in an Era of Community Care: New Directions in Provision Volume 20 of Cropwood conference series |
| Editors | William Watson, Adrian Grounds |
| Contributors | University of Cambridge. Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. Department of Psychiatry |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0521403421, 9780521403429 |
| Length | 220 pages |
| Subjects | › › Medical / Mental Health Medical / Psychiatry / General |
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