This textbook of forensic psychiatry is a source book for a wide range of issues concerned with the interaction between law and psychiatry. It has a special emphasis on mentally disordered offenders, accidents, and compensation matters. Primarily rooted in English practice, nevertheless a concerted effort has been made to cross national boundaries in terms of legal principles and service provision. The book may be used as an examination and instructional text for psychiatrists, as a source of reference for all academic enquiries in this field, and as the basis of closer understanding between professions working with mentally disordered offenders and other individuals caught up in the legal process, including lawyers, magistrates, psychologists, social workers, probation officers, nurses and policemen.
This textbook of forensic psychiatry is a source book for a wide range of issues concerned with the interaction between law and psychiatry. It has a special emphasis on mentally disordered offenders, accidents, and compensation matters. Primarily rooted in English practice, nevertheless a concerted effort has been made to cross national boundaries in terms of legal principles and service provision. The book may be used as an examination and instructional text for psychiatrists, as a source of reference for all academic enquiries in this field, and as the basis of closer understanding between professions working with mentally disordered offenders and other individuals caught up in the legal process, including lawyers, magistrates, psychologists, social workers, probation officers, nurses and policemen.
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978-0-7506-0349-2 (9780750603492)
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The law, adult mental disorder and the psychiatrist; a comparative survey of medico-legal systems; the courts & bodies overseeing & administering the laws in the United Kingdom; juveniles - laws and facilities in the United Kingdom; the psychosocial milieu of the offender; organic disorders; psychosis, violence and crime; personality disorders; deception, self-deception and dissociation; addictions and dependencies - their association with offending; non-psychotic violence; dangerousness; treatment and management issues; forensic psychiatry for the health services of England & Wales; non-medical settings; secure institutions - their characteristics and problems; psychiatric reports for legal purposes; ethics in forensic psychiatry; victims and survivors. Appendices.
