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Mentally Disordered Offenders: Managing People Nobody Owns
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Product Description
Presses the case for better mental health care for mentally disturbed law breakers, and the need to divert them from unnecessary imprisonment.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #267161 in Books
- Published on: 1999-06-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 192 pages
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From the Back Cover
Mentally disordered offenders present particular problems in our society: how do we get the balance right between sympathy towards their illness and genuine worries about their offending behaviour? What do we do for - and about - people who have been released from prison yet who we suspect continue to pose risks to the safety of others?
Mentally Disordered Offenders presses the case for better health care of mentally disturbed law breakers, and the need to divert them from unnecessary imprisonment. With specialist contributors from criminology, criminal justice, social work, probation practice and the law, the book stresses the importance of professional co-operation in community-based services, whilst acknowledging the psychologically demanding nature of working with mentally disordered people.
Mentally Disordered Offenders marks the seventieth birthday of Herschel Prins, whose work has been so influential in this area, and will be an invaluable resource for all those involved in the criminal jus
About the Author
Professor Philip Bean, Director of the Midlands Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, Loughborough University; Paul Cavadino, Director of Policy and Information for the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO); Daniel Grant, specialist practioner in child protection; Professor Robert Harris, University of Hull; Jill Peay London School of Economics; Judith Pitchers, Loughborough University; Professor Michael Preston-Shoot, Liverpool John-Moores University; David Webb, Dean of Faculty of Economics and Social Science, Nottingham Trent University; Sir John Wood, Emeritus Professor in Law, University of Sheffield; Sir Louis Blom-Cooper QC
