Forensic Mental Health

by McMurran; Mary

• ISBN13: 9781843923893
• ISBN10: 1843923890
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-12-01
• Publisher: Willan

Summary

This book provides a concise introduction to the increasingly important field of forensic mental health. It sets out both the key concepts in forensic mental health as well as the way the discipline operates in the broader context of criminal justice and mental health care systems.It will provide an ideal introduction to the subject for students taking courses in universities and elsewhere, for mental health practitioners in the early stages of their careers, and for professionals from other agencies needing an informed and up-to-date account of forensic mental health.

Table of Contents

Forword

Introduction

Seminal Influences

Growing up with Stan

The art of exile: a study of Alexander Herzen

The other side of the street: an interview with Stan Cohen

How we deal with the people we study: 'The Last Seminar' revisited

Gradations of Social Control: From Moral Panics to Long-term Imprisonment

Folk Devils and Moral Panics: an appreciation from North America

Slipping away - moral panics each side of 'the Golden Age'Jock Young

Sexual offenders and the path to a purified domain

Hassles and worse

Moral panic, denial, and human rights: scanning the spectrum from overreaction to underreaction

Extremeties of Control: Torture and the Death Penalty

The power to classify: avenues into a supermax prison

The torture debate: Israel and beyond

Death, denial, discourse: on the forms and functions of American capital punishment

Visions of Social Control

Pathologies of markets and states

Visions of Social Control revisited

Governing security: the rise of the privatised military

The free movement of people: ethical debates before and after 9/11

Detain-restrain-control: sliding scale or slippery slope?

Social control talk/talking about social control: encounters with Stan Cohen and his work

The Theory and Practice of Denial

Denial and responsibilty

The Israeli human rights movement-lessons from South Africa

Mediterranean poverty and conflict: applying a human rights strategy

States of acknowledgement: the politics of memory, apology and therapy

Denial in Cambodia

Does any of this matter? Transitional justice and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Ways Ahead'I sang in my cell because i wouldn't sing' and other tales

Restorative justice - answers to deficits in modernity?

The flow of boundaries: gays, queers and intimate citizenship

The fates of solidarity: use and abuse

Criminology as a vocation

Conflict, suffering and the promise of human rights

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