Managing mentally abnormal offenders

Open Access

1 September 1989

journal article
Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in Psychiatric Bulletin

Vol. 13 (9) , 480-481
https://doi.org/10.1192/pb.13.9.480

Abstract

Psychiatric patients often break society's rules and find themselves before the courts. Sometimes an offence is the first sign of mental illness. The coincidence of mental disorder and an offence complicates both assessment and management, but particularly the latter.

Keywords

ABNORMAL OFFENDERS
MANAGING MENTALLY
MENTAL ILLNESS
MENTALLY ABNORMAL
OFFENCE
OFFENDERS PSYCHIATRIC
PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

The Psychiatric Court Report
Medicine, Science and the Law, 1979
Management of the Mentally Abnormal Offender
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1977