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Sentence deferred – a useful psychiatric recommendation?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

William Grant
William Grant*
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Department of Psychological Medicine, Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne
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Although the power to defer sentence has been available to the criminal courts in England and Wales since 1973 there has been little discussion of the psychiatric aspects of this disposal. This article considers the legal development of deferment of sentence, the guidelines that have been recommended for its use and the sort of situations in which a deferred sentence might appropriately be considered by psychiatrists preparing a court report.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 12 , Issue 7 , July 1988 , pp. 276 - 278
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988

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