Description
How might we best manage those who have offended but have mental vulnerabilities? How are risks identified, managed and minimised? What are ideological differences of care and control, punishment and therapy negotiated in practice? These questions are just some which are debated in the eleven chapters of this book. Each with their focus on a given area, authors raise the challenges, controversies, dilemmas and concerns attached to this particular context of delivering justice.
Taking insights on imprisonment, community punishments and forensic services, this book provides a broad analysis of environments. But it also casts a critical light on how punishment of the mentally vulnerable sits within public attitudes and ideas, policy discourses, and the ways in which those seen to present as risky and dangerous are imagined.
Written in a clear and direct style, this book serves as a valuable resource for those studying, working or researching at the intersections of healthcare and criminal justice domains. This book is essential reading for students and practitioners within the fields of criminology and criminal justice, social work, forensic psychology, forensic psychiatry, mental health nursing and probation.
Table of Contents
1.The rise of psychiatry: mental illness/disorder and social control 2.Mental health and the criminal courts: Fitness to plead, culpability and the defence of insanity 3.Causal relationships or casual associations? Assessing the nature and character of mental illness/disorder and crime 4.Containing them, liberating us: The shadow side of criminal psychopathy 5.Community Punishment and mental illness and disorder 6.Uneasy bedfellows: Imprisonment, mental health and public service austerity 7.Continuity and Change in Penal Policy towards Personality Disordered Offenders 8.The therapeutic management of child sex offenders 9.Mental health, young people and punishments 10.‘Securing’ treatment for female prisoners with mental health issues 11.Intellectual Disability and Punishments
