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Chapter 21 - Tackling Ethnic Inequality in Forensic Mental Healthcare

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2024

By
Shubulade Smith  and
Raj Mohan
Edited by
Mary Davoren  and
Harry G. Kennedy
Mary Davoren
Affiliation:
Broadmoor Hospital and West London NHS Trust
Harry G. Kennedy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
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Summary

There are well-known, significant racial disparities in mental healthcare access, experience and outcome. The additional duty of forensic mental health practitioners to be always mindful of public protection means that it is imperative that all steps are taken to reduce the risk that individuals with mental disorder may pose to others, as well as themselves. Forensic mental healthcare focusses on secondary prevention – preventing known patients from relapsing and re-offending – recurrence of violence. The evidence increasingly points to the fact that forensic mental health services are doing this more successfully with some sections of the population we serve than others.

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Cultural psychiatryEthnic minority
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Seminars in Forensic Psychiatry , pp. 417 - 433
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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