David Webb (ed.)

Mentally Disordered Offenders

Managing People Nobody Owns
Herausgeber: Harris, Robert; Webb, David

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presses the case for better mental health care for mentally disturbed law breakers, and the need to divert them from unnecessary imprisonment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780415180108
• ISBN-10: 0415180104
• Artikelnr.: 20988617

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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