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- Decriminalizing Mental Illness
- Decriminalizing Mental Illness
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Part I Introduction/Description of the Problem
- Chapter 1 Balancing the Pendulum: Rethinking the Role of Institutionalization in the Treatment of Serious Mental Illness
- Chapter 2 Deinstitutionalization and Other Factors in the Criminalization of Persons with Serious Mental Illness and How it is Being Addressed
- Chapter 3 A Brief History of the Criminalization of Mental Illness
- Chapter 4 A Social History of Psychotic Illness
- Chapter 5 Forensic Patients in State Psychiatric Hospitals: 1999–2016
- Chapter 6 A Survey of National Trends in Psychiatric Patients Found Incompetent to Stand Trial: Reasons for the Reinstitutionalization of People with Serious Mental Illness in the United States
- Chapter 7 Forensic Psychiatry and Mental Health in Australia: An Overview
- Chapter 8 Community Forensic Psychiatric Services in England and Wales
- Chapter 9 A Longitudinal Description of Incompetent to Stand Trial Admissions to a State Hospital
- Part II Solutions
- Part III Psychopharmacological Treatment Considerations
- Part IV Nonpsychopharmacological Treatment Considerations
- Part V Criminal Justice and Social Considerations
- Index
- References
Chapter 7 - Forensic Psychiatry and Mental Health in Australia: An Overview
from Part I - Introduction/Description of the Problem
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
- Chapter 1 Balancing the Pendulum: Rethinking the Role of Institutionalization in the Treatment of Serious Mental Illness
- Chapter 2 Deinstitutionalization and Other Factors in the Criminalization of Persons with Serious Mental Illness and How it is Being Addressed
- Chapter 3 A Brief History of the Criminalization of Mental Illness
- Chapter 4 A Social History of Psychotic Illness
- Chapter 5 Forensic Patients in State Psychiatric Hospitals: 1999–2016
- Chapter 6 A Survey of National Trends in Psychiatric Patients Found Incompetent to Stand Trial: Reasons for the Reinstitutionalization of People with Serious Mental Illness in the United States
- Chapter 7 Forensic Psychiatry and Mental Health in Australia: An Overview
- Chapter 8 Community Forensic Psychiatric Services in England and Wales
- Chapter 9 A Longitudinal Description of Incompetent to Stand Trial Admissions to a State Hospital
- Part II Solutions
- Part III Psychopharmacological Treatment Considerations
- Part IV Nonpsychopharmacological Treatment Considerations
- Part V Criminal Justice and Social Considerations
- Index
- References
Summary
The indigenous inhabitants of the Australian continent arrived approximately 65,000 years ago. Issues of mental illness and criminal responsibility prior to European arrival are not well known by current professionals. The continent is now home to the Commonwealth of Australia, a parliamentary democracy, established in 1901 following land claims by Britain that began in 1788. The Commonwealth is a federation of six states and two territories that were originally colonies of Britain. The first British colony in Sydney, New South Wales was a penal settlement, which perhaps set the tone for development of forensic mental health services across the country as developing as an offshoot from prison services. Forensic mental health services have been reviewed before, and more recent developments are covered.
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- Decriminalizing Mental Illness , pp. 60 - 63Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021