Beschreibung:
Bringing together leading academics and practitioners, this book offers a critical overview of mental health and contemporary punishment, and provides a developed understanding of the nature of risk management and the delivery of criminal justice.
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