DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Mentally Disordered Offenders

Managing People Nobody Owns

Robert Harris editor David Webb editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:17th Jun '99

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Mentally Disordered Offenders cover

Managing the Mentally Disordered Offender presses the case for better health care of mentally disturbed law breakers, and the need to divert them from unnecessary imprisonment.
Mentally disordered offenders present particular problems in our society, which wants both to sympathise and to punish. How do we get the balance right between sympathy towards their illness and genuine worries about their offending behaviour? What do we do for - and about - people wo have been released from prison yet we suspect continue to pose risks to the safety of others?
With specialist contributors from criminology, criminal justice, social work, probation practice and the law, Managing the Mentally Disordered Offender stresses the importance of professional cooperation in community-based services, whilst acknowledgin the psychologically demanding nature of working with mentally disordered people, and ther very real challenges of attempting to contain their wrongdoing without recourse to the repressiveness of imprisonment.

ISBN: 9780415180108

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 350g

188 pages