Law without enforcement : integrating mental health and justice / edited by Nigel Eastman and Jill Peay.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eastman, Nigel, editor.

Peay, Jill, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain. Mental Health Act 1983.

Great Britain.

Mental health facilities--Great Britain--Admission and discharge.

Mental health facilities.

Mental health laws--Great Britain.

Mental health laws.

Mentally ill--Commitment and detention--Great Britain.

Mentally ill.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Law relating to mental disorder and to the mentally disordered has rarely been the subject of such extensive and heated debate. This book explores and reflects upon that debate. To date the focus has been on the tension between public protection and individual civil rights,since much of its impetus has derived from 'notorious' homicides in the community and been directed towards calls for a 'community treatment order'. The debate encapsulated here is more comprehensive, going to the heart of the nature of mental illness and its impacts on legal capacity, juxtaposing constructs which arise out of profoundly differing disciplines. The book concludes that the contribution of current mental health legislation is both marginal and marginalised and it seeks to set an agenda for radical law reform by recognising that asking questions may, at this stage, be more valuable than providing hasty answers. Many of the chapters deal with the recent Bournewood decision in the House of Lords."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

1. Law Without Enforcement: Theory and Practice / Nigel Eastman and Jill Peay

2. Mental Health Law: Objectives and Principles / William Bingley and Chris Heginbotham

3. Mental and Physical Illness: An Unsustainable Separation? / Eric Matthews

4. Public Policy via Law: Practitioner's Sword and Politician's Shield / Chris Heginbotham and Tony Elson

5. Client and Clinician: Law as an Intrusion / Fiona Caldicott, Edna Conlan and Anthony Zigmond

6. Law as a Clinical Tool: Practising Within and Outwith the Law / Ian Bynoe and Tony Holland

7. Law as a Rights Protector: Assessing the Mental Health Act 1983 / Genevra Richardson and Oliver Thorold

8. The Citizen Mental Patient / Peter Barham and Marian Barnes

9. Auditing the Effectiveness of Mental Health Law / Nick Bosanquet

10. Madness and Moral Panics / Geoffrey Pearson

11. Decision Making and Mental Health Law / Annie Bartlett and Lawrence Phillips

12. Researching Law / Bram Oppenheim

13. Afterword: Integrating Mental Health and Justice / Nigel Eastman and Jill Peay.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-232) and index.

ISBN:

9786610801459

9781474200394

1474200397

9781280801457

128080145X

9781847312624

1847312624

OCLC:

437176516