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- Decriminalizing Mental Illness
- Decriminalizing Mental Illness
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Part I Introduction/Description of the Problem
- Part II Solutions
- Part III Psychopharmacological Treatment Considerations
- Part IV Nonpsychopharmacological Treatment Considerations
- Part V Criminal Justice and Social Considerations
- Chapter 28 Tipping the Scales Of Justice: The Role of Forensic Evaluations in the Criminalization of Mental Illness
- Chapter 29 Competence to Stand Trial and Criminalization: An Overview of the Research
- Chapter 30 Risk Factors for Recidivism in Individuals Receiving Community Sentences: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
- Chapter 31 Developing Policies for Adult Sexual Minorities with Mental Health Needs in Secured Settings
- Chapter 32 An Overview of Jail-Based Competency Restoration
- Chapter 33 Fixated Threat Assessment Centres: Preventing Harm and Facilitating Care in Public Figure Threat Cases and Those Thought to Be at Risk of Lone-Actor Grievance-Fuelled Violence
- Chapter 34 Decriminalizing LGBTQ+: Reproducing and Resisting Mental Health Inequities
- Chapter 35 Building a Therapeutic Relationship Between Probation Officers and Probationers with Serious Mental Illnesses
- Chapter 36 Length of Stay for Inpatient Incompetent to Stand Trial (IST) Patients: Importance of Clinical and Demographic Variables
- Chapter 37 Severe Mentally Ill Patients: Our Global Migrants
- Index
- References
Chapter 33 - Fixated Threat Assessment Centres: Preventing Harm and Facilitating Care in Public Figure Threat Cases and Those Thought to Be at Risk of Lone-Actor Grievance-Fuelled Violence
from Part V - Criminal Justice and Social Considerations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 October 2021
- Decriminalizing Mental Illness
- Decriminalizing Mental Illness
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Part I Introduction/Description of the Problem
- Part II Solutions
- Part III Psychopharmacological Treatment Considerations
- Part IV Nonpsychopharmacological Treatment Considerations
- Part V Criminal Justice and Social Considerations
- Chapter 28 Tipping the Scales Of Justice: The Role of Forensic Evaluations in the Criminalization of Mental Illness
- Chapter 29 Competence to Stand Trial and Criminalization: An Overview of the Research
- Chapter 30 Risk Factors for Recidivism in Individuals Receiving Community Sentences: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
- Chapter 31 Developing Policies for Adult Sexual Minorities with Mental Health Needs in Secured Settings
- Chapter 32 An Overview of Jail-Based Competency Restoration
- Chapter 33 Fixated Threat Assessment Centres: Preventing Harm and Facilitating Care in Public Figure Threat Cases and Those Thought to Be at Risk of Lone-Actor Grievance-Fuelled Violence
- Chapter 34 Decriminalizing LGBTQ+: Reproducing and Resisting Mental Health Inequities
- Chapter 35 Building a Therapeutic Relationship Between Probation Officers and Probationers with Serious Mental Illnesses
- Chapter 36 Length of Stay for Inpatient Incompetent to Stand Trial (IST) Patients: Importance of Clinical and Demographic Variables
- Chapter 37 Severe Mentally Ill Patients: Our Global Migrants
- Index
- References
Summary
Developments in threat assessment, particularly in the area of concerning communications and approaches to public figures, has led to the setting-up in a number of countries of a new style of service for assessing and managing risk to the prominent from the actions of lone individuals. Known as fixated threat assessment centres (FTACs), their central characteristic is that they are jointly staffed by police officers and by psychiatric staff from health services. They are based on the realization that the interests of the prominent in terms of protection overlap with those of the people harassing them in terms of medical care. Research over the last decade has re-established that the majority of those threatening, harassing, or attacking public figures have unmet mental health needs, and that attention to these is often the most effective way of reducing risk, whilst at the same time improving their lot and focusing on treatment, rather than criminalization. The approach has recently been expanded to encompass assessment and intervention in individuals suspected of being radicalised into extreme ideologies and at risk of proceeding to commit terrorist acts.
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- Decriminalizing Mental Illness , pp. 328 - 337Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021