Management of the Mentally Disordered Offender in Prisons
ISBN: 9780773566071
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Prisoners -- Mental health services;

Possibly no area of human endeavour poses a greater ethical challenge to a free society than the safe control of mentally disordered persons who represent a significant social danger. Managing mentally disordered offenders (MDOs) is a major challenge for the clinician because they have multiple problems and diagnoses and the cost of a mistake can be very high. Despite the complexity of this difficult group, until now there have been few guidelines for dealing with MDOs.


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