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Mental Health and Offending : Care, Coercion and Control by Julie D. Trebilcock, Samantha K. Weston is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Mental Health and Offending : Care, Coercion and Control about?

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. 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. 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. With dedicated chapters concerning the police, courts, secure services and the community, this book explores a range of issues including: The tensions between the care, coercion and control of mentally disordered offenders The increasingly blurred boundaries between mental health and criminal justice Rights, responsibilities, accountability and blame Risk, public protection and precaution Challenges involved with treatment,

Who reads Mental Health and Offending : Care, Coercion and Control?

Author

Julie D. Trebilcock, Samantha K. Weston

Publisher

Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781315520377

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Science, Social Science