Law Without Enforcement - Professor Jill Peay, Nigel Eastman

Law Without Enforcement

Integrating Mental Health and Justice
Buch | Softcover
256 Seiten
1999
Hart Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-901362-75-6 (ISBN)
74,80 inkl. MwSt
In this book law relating to mental disorder and to the mentally disordered is explored and reflected upon.
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.

Nigel Eastman is in the Department of Psychiatry at St. George's Hospital Medical School. Jill Peay is a Reader in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Law without enforcement - theory and practice, Nigel Eastman and Jill Peay; mental health law - objectives and principles, William Bingley and Chris Heginbotham; mental and physical illness - an unsustainable separation?, Eric Matthews; public policy via law - practitioner's sword and politician's shield, Chris Heginbotham and Tony Elson; client and clinician - law as an intrusion - Fiona Caldicott, Edna Conlan and Anthony Zigmond; law as a clinical tool, Ian Bynoe and Tony Holland; law as a rights protector - assessing the Mental Health Act 1983, Genevra Richardson and Oliver Thorold; the citizen mental patient, Peter Barham and Marian Barnes; auditing the effectiveness of mental health law, Nick Bosanquet; madness and moral panics, Geoffrey Pearson; decision making and mental health law, Annie Bartlett and Lawrence Phillips; researching law, Bram Oppenheim; afterword - integrating mental health and justice, Nigel Eastman and Jill Peay; case list.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.3.1999
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Öffentliches Recht Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
Recht / Steuern Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht Medizinrecht
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-901362-75-2 / 1901362752
ISBN-13 978-1-901362-75-6 / 9781901362756
Zustand Neuware
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