Forensic Psychiatry: Clinical, Legal and Ethical Issues (2nd Edition)

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Forensic Psychiatry: Clinical, Legal and Ethical Issues (2nd Edition)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Criminal and civil law for the psychiatrist in England and Wales
3. Mental health and capacity laws including their administering bodies
4. Legal arrangements in the rest of the British Isles and Islands
5. Forensic psychiatry and its interfaces outside the UK and Ireland
6. Psychiatric reports for legal purposes in England and Wales
7. The psychosocial milieu of the offender
8. Genetic influences on antisocial behaviour, problem substance use and schizophrenia: evidence from quantitative genetic and molecular genetic studies
9. Violence
10. Disordered and offensive sexual behaviour
11. The majority of crime: theft, motoring and criminal damage (including arson)
12. Disorders of brain structure and function and crime
13. Offenders with intellectual disabilities
14. Psychosis, violence and crime
15. Pathologies of passion and related antisocial behaviours
16. Personality disorders
17. Deception, dissociation and malingering
18. Addictions and dependencies: their association with offending
19. Juvenile offenders and adolescent psychiatry
20. Women as offenders
21. Older people and the criminal justice system
22. Dangerousness
23. Principles of treatment for the mentally disordered offender
24. Forensic mental health services in the United Kingdom and Ireland
25. Offenders and alleged offenders with mental disorder in non-medical settings
26. Ethics in forensic psychiatry
27. Deviant and sick medical staff
28. Victims and survivors
29. Appendix 1: ECHR
30. Appendix 2: MHA 1983
31. Appendix 3: Experts’ Protocol
32. Appendix 4: Hippocratic Oath  Cases cited

Reviews

“Though penned primarily for those with more advanced knowledge of forensic issues (including those practicing within the justice system), this work might prove useful for anyone interested in the various intriguing and complicated challenges in the subspecialty of forensic psychiatry.”

—Steven T. Herron, MD, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, USA

” … a very comprehensive and thorough review of the whole field of forensic psychiatry. It is a book that every practicing forensic psychiatrist would benefit from having. There is no other textbook as comprehensive as this concerned with UK forensic psychiatry: subjects are covered in depth with a vast array of references and articles synthesised. By and large it’s accurate and up-to-date. It’s a real achievement … . Highly Commended.”

—2014 BMA Medical Book Awards

Editors Biography

John C. Gunn, CBE FRCPsych FMedSci Member, Parole Board, England & Wales, Emeritus Professor of Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK.

Pamela J. Taylor, FRCPsych FMedSci, Professor of Forensic Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, UK.