Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-dh8gc Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-04T21:22:06.156Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Managing mentally abnormal offenders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Jack Hajioff
Jack Hajioff*
Affiliation:
Hill End Hospital, St Albans AL4 0RB
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Psychiatric patients often break society's rules and find themselves before the courts. Sometimes an offence is the first sign of mental illness. The coincidence of mental disorder and an offence complicates both assessment and management, but particularly the latter.

Type
Articles
Information
Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 13 , Issue 9 , September 1989 , pp. 480 - 481
Creative Commons
Creative Common License - CCCreative Common License - BY
This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989

References

Bluglass, R. (1979) The psychiatric court report. Medicine, Science and the Law, 19, 121–129.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Bowden, P. (1977) The current management of the mentally disordered offender. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 70, 881–884.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Gibbens, T. C. N. (1974) Preparing psychiatric court reports. British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 12, 278–284.Google Scholar
Hamilton, J. R. & Freeman, H. (1982) Dangerousness, Psychiatric Assessment and Management. London: The Royal College of Psychiatrists.Google Scholar
Home Office and Department of Health & Social Security (1971) Report on the working Party on Habitual Drunken Offenders. London: HMSO.Google Scholar
Home Office and Department of Health & Social Security (1975) Report of the Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders, (Chairman: Lord Butler), Cmnd 6244. London: HMSO.Google Scholar
Jones, K. (1955) Lunacy, Law and Conscience. London: Routledge & Keagan Paul.Google Scholar
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.