Mental Health, Crime and Criminal Justice: Responses and Reforms

✍ Scribed by Jane Winstone (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 318
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Crime, Exclusion and Mental Health: Current Realities and Future Responses....Pages 1-20
A Broken Outline — Being an Observer in My Own Life: Notes from a Service User....Pages 21-27
Troublesome Offenders, Undeserving Patients? The Precarious Rights of Mentally Disordered Offenders....Pages 28-47
Interventions and Outcomes: Accumulating Evidence....Pages 48-66
Desistance in Offenders with Mental Illness....Pages 67-90
Medicalising ‘Hatred’: Exploring the Sense and Sensitivities of Classifying the Motivations for Hate Crime as Mental Disorder....Pages 91-108
Mental Health Needs and Neurodevelopmental Disorders amongst Young Offenders: Implications for Policy and Practice....Pages 109-130
‘It Made My Mind Unwell’: Trauma-Informed Approaches to the Mental Health Needs of Women in the Criminal Justice System....Pages 131-146
Challenging the Cultural Determinants of Dual Diagnosis in the Criminal Justice System....Pages 147-166
The Role of the Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Crown Court Setting: Towards a Best Practice Model....Pages 167-183
The DSPD Programme: What Did It Tell Us about the Future for Managing Dangerous Prisoners with Severe Personality Disorders?....Pages 184-200
Prosecuting the Persecuted: Forgive Them, They Know Not What They Do....Pages 201-217
Successful Strategies for Working with Mentally Disordered Offenders within a Complex Multi-Agency Environment....Pages 218-241
Training to Improve Collaborative Practice: A Key Component of Strategy to Reduce Mental Ill Health in the Offender Population....Pages 242-265
Psychological Jurisprudence: Problems with and Prospects for Mental Health and Justice System Reform....Pages 266-283
Back Matter....Pages 285-301

✦ Subjects

Criminology & Criminal Justice; Sociology, general; Social Work; Medical Sociology