The Mentally Disordered Offender in an Era of Community Care : New Directions in Provision (Hardcover)

Conference participants; List of tables and figures; Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Offender-patients: the people nobody owns Herschel Prins; Part II. Future Directions for Psychiatric Services and Mental Health Law: 2. Future pattern of psychiatric services Douglas Bennett; 3. Future directions for mental health law Sir John Wood; 4. A criminological perspective - the influence of fashion and theory on practice and disposal: life chances in the criminological tombola Jill Peay; Part III. Perspectives on Future Needs: 5. The mentally abnormal offender in the era of community care Tony Fowles; 6. New directions for service provision: a personal view Paul Bowden; 7. Defining need and evaluating services John Wing; 8. Black people, mental health and the criminal justice system Deryck Browne, Errol Francis and Iain Crowe; 9. A view from the probation service Graham Smith; 10. A view from the prison medical service Rosemary Wool; 11. A view from the courts: diversion and discontinuance Philip Joseph; Part IV. Planning and Implementing New Services: 12. A view from the private sector Mike Lee-Evans; 13. Case management Geoff Shepherd; 14. A view from the Department of Health John Reed; Part V. A Concluding Review: 15. Future directions for research William Watson; References; Tables of cases; Index.