Local authority planning for the mentally disordered offender

The Mentally Abnormal Offender

Correctional Services for the Mentally Disordered Offender: a Challenge That Merits an Integrated Response

“Ashley Smith was a fourteen-year-old placed in a youth facility for one month in 2003 after throwing crabapples at the mailman. Smith was placed in solitary confinement after disruptive behavior on her first day. Her initial onemonth sentence would last almost four years, almost entirely in isolation. Often violent and unpredictable, Smith exhibited many attempts at choking herself into uncons...

The Mentally Abnormal Offender and the Law

In this book, Dr. Rollin shows that there is a group (composed almost entirely of chronic schizophrenics) who do extremely badly after their discharge from mental hospitals. They break the law because of their inability to look after themselves in the community and although proceedings are sometimes taken against them before they are transferred to a mental hospital, others are never prosecuted...

The Law and the Mentally Abnormal Offender

mentally ill, has, paradoxically enough, aggravated the problem of caring for the mentally abnormal offender. In accord with its spirit, there has been a wholesale discharge of patients from psychiatric hospitals, but inadequate after-care has been provided for many of them. Incapable of survival in society without support, they have bee} redistributed in the community i".. variety of socially ...

Management of the Mentally Abnormal Offender

Discussions about the prediction of dangerousness, a legal or social construct, often extend beyond forensic psychiatry into the general practice of psychiatry. Dangerousness can drive the entrance to and exit from the mental health and forensic system. Better conceptualized as risk prediction, it has been seen as a core skill for forensic psychiatry and an increasing requirement for general ps...