Forensic Psychiatry
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Forensic Psychiatry

Clinical, Legal and Ethical Issues, Second Edition

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eBook - PDF

Forensic Psychiatry

Clinical, Legal and Ethical Issues, Second Edition

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Highly Commended, BMA Medical Book Awards 2014Comprehensive and erudite, Forensic Psychiatry: Clinical, Legal and Ethical Issues, Second Edition is a practical guide to the psychiatry of offenders, victims, and survivors of crime. This landmark publication has been completely updated but retains all the features that made the first edition such a w

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9781444165067
Edition
2
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Forensic Science
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Contributors
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Preface
  6. Legislation
  7. List of Abbreviations
  8. 1. Introduction
  9. 2. Criminal and civil law for the psychiatrist in England and Wales
  10. 3. Mental health and capacity laws including their administering bodies
  11. 4. Legal arrangements in the rest of the British Isles and Islands
  12. 5. Forensic psychiatry and its interfaces outside the UK and Ireland
  13. 6. Psychiatric reports for legal purposes in England and Wales
  14. 7. The psychosocial milieu of the offender
  15. 8. Genetic influences on antisocial behaviour, problem substance use and schizophrenia: evidence from quantitative genetic and molecular genetic studies
  16. 9. Violence
  17. 10. Disordered and offensive sexual behaviour
  18. 11. The majority of crime: theft, motoring and criminal damage (including arson)
  19. 12. Disorders of brain structure and function and crime
  20. 13. Offenders with intellectual disabilities
  21. 14. Psychosis, violence and crime
  22. 15. Pathologies of passion and related antisocial behaviours
  23. 16. Personality disorders
  24. 17. Deception, dissociation and malingering
  25. 18. Addictions and dependencies: their association with offending
  26. 19. Juvenile offenders and adolescent psychiatry
  27. 20. Women as offenders
  28. 21. Older people and the criminal justice system
  29. 22. Dangerousness
  30. 23. Principles of treatment for the mentally disordered offender
  31. 24. Forensic mental health services in the United Kingdom and Ireland
  32. 25. Offenders and alleged offenders with mental disorder in non-medical settings
  33. 26. Ethics in forensic psychiatry
  34. 27. Deviant and sick medical staff
  35. 28. Victims and survivors
  36. Appendix 1: The European Convention on Human Rights
  37. Appendix 2: Mental Health Act 1983: As Amended by the Mental Health Act 2007
  38. Appendix 3: Protocol for the instruction of experts to give evidence in civil claims, from the civil justice council
  39. Appendix 4: Ethical Codes
  40. Cases Cited
  41. References