Forensic psychiatry and public protection.
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The prominence of risk in UK social and criminal justice policy creates opportunities, challenges and dangers for forensic psychiatry. The future standing of the specialty will depend not only on the practical utility of its responses to those opportunities and challenges, but also the ethical integrity of those responses.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science
دوره 198 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011