Community Forensic Psychiatric Services in England and Wales

Chapter 8 - Community Forensic Psychiatric Services in England and Wales

from Part I - Introduction/Description of the Problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 October 2021

Richard Latham and

Hannah Kate Williams

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Katherine Warburton and

Stephen M. Stahl

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Katherine Warburton: Affiliation:
University of California, Davis
Stephen M. Stahl: Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego

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This paper is intended to provide a summary and commentary on the extent of community services for mentally disordered offenders in England and Wales. Our focus on England and Wales is because the different countries of the United Kingdom have devolved legislative and administrative powers so that this paper would – by necessity if a United Kingdom paper – be three times as long so as to include Scottish and Northern Irish law, practice, and policy; Wales is considered alongside England as the two countries are sufficiently similar. We have interpreted “community services” broadly and have included descriptions of court liaison and diversion services, and multiagency risk management services. In other words, we have described, in some form, all of the services that are in place to manage mentally disordered offenders after they have been released from prison, discharged from hospital or diverted from either form of custody to the community.

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Information: Decriminalizing Mental Illness , pp. 64 - 78

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108920698 [Opens in a new window]

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Print publication year: 2021

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