Mental Health and Offending
Mental Health and Offending This book explores the controversial relationship between mental health and offending and looks at the ways in which offenders with mental health problems are cared for,…
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Mental Health and Offending
This book explores the controversial relationship between mental health and offending and looks at the ways in which offenders with mental health problems are cared for, coerced and controlled by the criminal justice and mental health systems. The book considers the politics surrounding mental health and offending, focusing particularly on the changing policy response to mentally disordered offenders since the mid-1990s. It provides a much-needed criminological approach to the field of forensic mental health.Beginning with an exploration into why the relationship between mental health and offending is so complex, readers will be introduced to a range of perspectives through which mental health and its relationship to offending behaviour can be understood.
With dedicated chapters concerning the police, courts, secure services and the community, this book explores a range of