Forensic Psychiatry

• Main Authors: Eastman, Nigel (Author), Adshead, Gwen (Author), Fox, Simone (Author), Latham, Richard (Author), Whyte, Sean (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Press 2019
• Subjects: Forensic Psychiatry
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Forensic Psychiatry is the first book to cover the clinical, legal and ethical issues for the treatment of mentally disordered offenders for all of the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland jurisdictions. Written by an expert interdisciplinary team from the fields of both law and psychiatry, includ...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Introduction to the handbook - Part II: Clinical forensic psychiatry - Part III: The ethics of forensic psychiatry - Part IV: Law relevant to psychiatry - Part V: Psychiatry within the legal system - Appendices - Index