Mentally disordered offenders : managing people nobody owns

David Webb
,
Robert Harris

Research Output: Book/Report Edited book Peer-review

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 3 Good Health and Well
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Abstract

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.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Book/Report Edited book Peer-review

Original language

English

Publication milestones

Published - 01/01/1999

Publication status

Published - 01/01/1999

Publisher

Routledge, United States, United Kingdom

ISBN (Print)

0415180090

External Publication IDs

handle.net: 10547/300075