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Title Mentally disordered offenders : managing people nobody owns / edited by David Webb and Robert Harris
Published London : Routledge, 1999

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Description xiii, 173 pages ; 25 cm
Contents Introduction / David Webb and Robert Harris -- 1. Mental disorder and social order: underlying themes in crime management / Robert Harris -- 2. Public Inquiries in mental health (with particular reference to the Blackwood case at Broadmoor and the patient-complaints of Ashworth Hospital) / Louis Blom-Cooper -- 3. The police and the mentally disordered in the community / Philip Bean -- 4. Diverting mentally disordered offenders from custody / Paul Cavadino -- 5. Recreating mayhem? Developing understanding for social work with mentally disordered people / Michael Preston-Shoot -- 6. Multi-agency risk management of mentally disordered sex offenders: a probation case study / Daniel Grant -- 7. The Parole Board and the mentally disordered offender / Judith Pitchers -- 8. Control and compassion: the uncertain role of Mental Health Review Tribunals in the management of the mentally ill / John Wood -- 9. Thinking horses, not zebras / Jill Peay
10. A balance of possibilities: some concluding notes on rights, risks and the mentally disordered offender / David Webb
Summary 10. A balance of possibilities: some concluding notes on rights, risks and the mentally disordered offender / David Webb
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Also available via the World Wide Web, by subscription to EBL (Ebook Library)
Subject Forensic psychiatry -- United States.
Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- United States
Mentally ill offenders -- Care -- United States.
Mentally ill offenders -- Services for -- United States.
Mentally ill prisoners -- Care -- United States.
Mentally ill prisoners -- Mental health services -- United States.
Mentally ill prisoners -- Services for -- United States.
Offenders with mental disabilities -- Care -- United States.
Offenders with mental disabilities -- Mental health services -- United States.
Offenders with mental disabilities -- Services for -- United States.
Psychiatric social work -- United States.
Author Harris, Robert, 1947-
Webb, David, 1946-
Ebooks Corporation.
LC no. 98053740
ISBN 0415180090
0415180104 (paperback)