The Future of Mental Health, Disability and Criminal Law

Foreword; Preface; Part I: Reforming Mental Health and Disability Law; 1. What is the Future of Mental Health, Disability and Criminal Law? 2. Making the Future Happen: Law Reform Lessons from the Victorian Royal Commission; 3. The Human Right to Health and the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022 (Vic); 4. Benefitting from Hindsight: What the Mental Capacity Act and Its Implementation Can Teach Us About CRPD Implementation; Part II: Regulating Coercion and Restrictive Practices; 5. Who Approves the Use of Restrictive Practices in Australia? The Case for a Uniform Authorisation Process; 6. Chemical Restraint Use and Reform in Health Care and Disability Settings; 7. Who Do We Turn To? Safeguarding Residents in Aged Care Settings from Abuse and Neglect in New Zealand; 8. Some Concerns About Arbitrary Detention of Elderly People in Secure Rest Home Care; Part III: Improving Access to Justice and the Criminal Law; 9. Whydunnit?: Causal Explanations in Sentencing Offenders With Mental Health Problems; 10. Finetuning a Jurisprudence of Risk; 11. The Rights of Persons with Sensory Disabilities to Participate in Juries; Part IV: Transforming Mental Health Law; 12. Challenging the Foundations of Mental Health Law: Using Articles 12 and 14 CRPD as a Framework to Deconstruct and Reimagine Mental Health Law; 13. The Digital Turn in Mental Health and Disability Law: Actuarial Traditions and AI Futures of Risk Assessment From a Human Rights Perspective; 14. Regulating Rights: Developing a Human Rights and Mental Health Regulatory Framework; 15. Standing Up Against the Weight of History: The Importance of Lived Experience in the Mental Health Context; Afterword