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Some Observations on the Supervision of Dangerous Offender Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Herschel Prins
Herschel Prins*
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Adviser in Clinical Criminology, 1, Home Close Road, Houghton on the Hill, Leicester LE7 9GT
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“All tragedy is the failure of communication”

(Wilson, 1956)

From time to time, general psychiatrists are asked to supervise offender patients who have been conditionally discharged into the community either by direction of the Home Secretary or by a Mental Health Review Tribunal (Mental Health Act 1983, sections 42(2) and 73(2)(4b)). In addition, they may be asked occasionally to provide psychiatric management for offenders released by the Home Secretary on life licence (Criminal Justice Act 1967, section 61). The effect of a conditional discharge following compulsory admission to hospital care by a court under a restriction order (Mental Health Act 1983, sections 37/41) is similar to that of a life licence.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 156 , Issue 2 , February 1990 , pp. 157 - 162
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990

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