Practical forensic psychiatry. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Tom Clark and Dharjinder Singh Rooprai.
• Other Names: Clark, Tom, 1970-; Rooprai, Dharjinder Singh
• Contents: The development of forensic psychiatric services -- Entry into secure care -- Treatment and outcomes in secure care -- Challenging issues in secure care -- Leaving secure care and community follow-up -- Risk of violence assessment -- Psychosis and offending -- Mood disorders, neuroses, and offending -- Personality disorders and offending -- Learning disability, autistic spectrum disorders, and offending -- Women in secure care -- Children and adolescents in secure care -- Sex offenders, stalkers, and fire setters -- Crime and criminology -- The criminal law and sentencing -- Psychiatry and the police -- Psychiatry and the criminal justice system -- Prisons and prisoners -- Mental health care in prisons -- Psychiatric issues in criminal courts -- Providing expert evidence to criminal courts.
• Publisher Details: London : Hodder Arnold
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 294 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 614.15; Forensic psychiatry; Forensic Psychiatry; Criminal Psychology -- legislation & jurisprudence; Forensic psychiatry
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1444149768; 9781444149760
• Related ISBNs: 9781444120639; 1444120638
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.