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Mental Health, Crime and Criminal Justice: Responses and Reforms

Mental Health, Crime and Criminal Justice: Responses and Reforms

Author: Jane Winstone
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781137453877
Published In: November 2015
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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It has long been known that the pathway through the criminal justice system for those with mental health needs is fraught with difficulty.

This interdisciplinary collection explores key issues in mental health, crime and criminal justice, including: offenders' rights; intervention designs; desistance; health-informed approaches to offending and the medical needs of offenders; psychological jurisprudence, and; collaborative and multi-agency practice.

This volume draws on the knowledge of professionals and academics working in this field internationally, as well as the experience of service users. It offers a solution-focused response to these issues, and promotes both equality and quality of experience for service users. It will be essential reading for practitioners, scholars and students with an interest in forensic mental health and criminal justice.

1. Crime, Exclusion and Mental Health: Current Realities and Future Responses

Jane Winstone

2. A Broken Outline - Being an Observer in My Own Life: Notes from a Service User

Lucy Jo Matthews

3. Troublesome Offenders, Undeserving Patients? The Precarious Rights of Mentally Disordered Offenders

Rob Canton

4. Interventions and Outcomes: Accumulating Evidence

James McGuire

5. Desistance in Offenders with Mental Illness

Svenja Gobbels, Jo Thakker and Tony Ward

6. Medicalising 'Hatred': Exploring the Sense and Sensitivities of Classifying the Motivations for Hate Crime as Mental Disorder

Jemma Tyson and Nathan Hall