Psychiatry and the law / 
general editor, Warren Brookbanks ; consulting editor, Alexander Simpson. 
 - xxxviii, 517 pages :  illustrations ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0408718501 9780408718509 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mental health laws--New Zealand.<br/>Forensic psychiatry--New Zealand
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>344.93044