Psychiatry and the law / general editor, Warren Brookbanks ; consulting editor, Alexander Simpson.
Material type: TextPublisher: Wellington, N.Z. : LexisNexis, 2007Description: xxxviii, 517 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0408718501
- 9780408718509
- 344.93044 22
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. 1. Introduction. Ch. 1. Responses to risk : legal parameters and service responses / Warren Brookbanks and Alexander Simpson -- Pt. 2. Legal principles. Ch. 2. Ethical issues in forensic psychiatry / Ceri Evans. Ch. 3. Defining mental disorder / Sylvia Bell. Ch. 4. Implementing civil commitment : "doing with" not "doing to" / Brian McKenna, Alexander Simpson and John Coverdale. Ch. 5. Forensic psychiatry and public law / John Dawson. Ch. 6. Insanity / Warren Brookbanks. Ch. 7. Fitness to plead / Warren Brookbanks and Jeremy Skipworth. Ch. 8. The sentencing and disposition of mentally disordered offenders / Warren Brookbanks. Ch. 9. Psychiatrists as expert witnesses and report writers / Ian Freckelton. Ch. 10. Writing court reports / Grant Galpin -- Pt. 3. Clinical issues in relation to mentally abnormal offenders. Ch. 11. Schizophrenic syndrome, violent and other antisocial behaviours / Paul E. Mullen -- Ch. 12. Clinical assessment and management of violence risk in forensic populations / Renate Bellve-Wack and Alexander Simpson. Ch. 13. Intellectual disabilities and the law / Mhaire Duff and Joseph Sakdalan -- Pt. 4. Forensic psychiatry service provision. Ch. 14. Services for mentally abnormal offenders : some important issue / David Chaplow. Ch. 15. The treatment and rehabilitation of Maori in forensic mental health services / Rees Tapsell. Ch. 16. Delivery of mental health services in prisons / Philip Brinded and Ceri Evans. Ch. 17. Liaison services to the Courts / Brian McKenna and Kevin Seaton. Ch. 18. Rehabilitation in forensic psychiatry / Jeremy Skipworth and Per Lindqvist.
"Psychiatry and the law is the first major new work on the high-profile area of forensic psychiatry and law in Australia and New Zealand in over a decade."--BOOK JACKET.
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