Mental Health, Crime and Criminal Justice: Responses and Reforms

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Crime, Exclusion and Mental Health: Current Realities and Future Responses....Pages 1-20
A Broken Outline — Being an Observer in My Own Life: Notes from a Service User....Pages 21-27
Troublesome Offenders, Undeserving Patients? The Precarious Rights of Mentally Disordered Offenders....Pages 28-47
Interventions and Outcomes: Accumulating Evidence....Pages 48-66
Desistance in Offenders with Mental Illness....Pages 67-90
Medicalising ‘Hatred’: Exploring the Sense and Sensitivities of Classifying the Motivations for Hate Crime as Mental Disorder....Pages 91-108
Mental Health Needs and Neurodevelopmental Disorders amongst Young Offenders: Implications for Policy and Practice....Pages 109-130
‘It Made My Mind Unwell’: Trauma-Informed Approaches to the Mental Health Needs of Women in the Criminal Justice System....Pages 131-146
Challenging the Cultural Determinants of Dual Diagnosis in the Criminal Justice System....Pages 147-166
The Role of the Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Crown Court Setting: Towards a Best Practice Model....Pages 167-183
The DSPD Programme: What Did It Tell Us about the Future for Managing Dangerous Prisoners with Severe Personality Disorders?....Pages 184-200
Prosecuting the Persecuted: Forgive Them, They Know Not What They Do....Pages 201-217
Successful Strategies for Working with Mentally Disordered Offenders within a Complex Multi-Agency Environment....Pages 218-241
Training to Improve Collaborative Practice: A Key Component of Strategy to Reduce Mental Ill Health in the Offender Population....Pages 242-265
Psychological Jurisprudence: Problems with and Prospects for Mental Health and Justice System Reform....Pages 266-283
Back Matter....Pages 285-301