Mental Health, Crime and Criminal Justice

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Crime, Exclusion and Mental Health: Current Realities and Future Responses

   • Jane Winstone

   Pages 1-20

3. A Broken Outline — Being an Observer in My Own Life: Notes from a Service User

   • Lucy Jo Mathews

   Pages 21-27

4. Troublesome Offenders, Undeserving Patients? The Precarious Rights of Mentally Disordered Offenders

   • Rob Canton

   Pages 28-47

5. Interventions and Outcomes: Accumulating Evidence

   • James McGuire

   Pages 48-66

6. Desistance in Offenders with Mental Illness

   • Svenja Göbbels, Jo Thakker, Tony Ward

   Pages 67-90

7. Medicalising ‘Hatred’: Exploring the Sense and Sensitivities of Classifying the Motivations for Hate Crime as Mental Disorder

   • Jemma Tyson, Nathan Hall

   Pages 91-108

8. Mental Health Needs and Neurodevelopmental Disorders amongst Young Offenders: Implications for Policy and Practice

   • Prathiba Chitsabesan, Nathan Hughes

   Pages 109-130

9. ‘It Made My Mind Unwell’: Trauma-Informed Approaches to the Mental Health Needs of Women in the Criminal Justice System

   • Madeline Petrillo

   Pages 131-146

10. Challenging the Cultural Determinants of Dual Diagnosis in the Criminal Justice System

    • Aaron Pycroft, Anita Green

    Pages 147-166

11. The Role of the Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Crown Court Setting: Towards a Best Practice Model

    • Charles de Lacy

    Pages 167-183

12. The DSPD Programme: What Did It Tell Us about the Future for Managing Dangerous Prisoners with Severe Personality Disorders?

    • Ruth Scally

    Pages 184-200

13. Prosecuting the Persecuted: Forgive Them, They Know Not What They Do

    • Taffy Gatawa

    Pages 201-217

14. Successful Strategies for Working with Mentally Disordered Offenders within a Complex Multi-Agency Environment

    • Leighe Rogers, Gillian Ormston

    Pages 218-241

15. Training to Improve Collaborative Practice: A Key Component of Strategy to Reduce Mental Ill Health in the Offender Population

    • Sarah Hean, Elizabeth Walsh, Marilyn Hammick

    Pages 242-265

16. Psychological Jurisprudence: Problems with and Prospects for Mental Health and Justice System Reform

    • Bruce A. Arrigo, Heather Y. Bersot

    Pages 266-283

17. Back Matter

    Pages 285-301

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It has long been known that the pathway through the criminal justice system for those with mental health needs is fraught with difficulty. This interdisciplinary collection explores key issues in mental health, crime and criminal justice, including: offenders' rights; intervention designs; desistance; health-informed approaches to offending and the medical needs of offenders; psychological jurisprudence, and; collaborative and multi-agency practice. 


This volume draws on the knowledge of professionals and academics working in this field internationally, as well as the experience of service users. It offers a solution-focused response to these issues, and promotes both equality and quality of experience for service users. It will be essential reading for practitioners, scholars and students with an interest in forensic mental health and criminal justice. 

• mentally disordered offending
• health and justice
• risk
• crime
• criminal justice
• multi-agency
• liaison and diversion
• reforms
• responses
• solutions
• Bradley Report
• NHS England
• prisons
• court
• secure accommodation
• community justice
• integrated services
• ethics
• human rights
• psychological jurisprudence
• community
• criminology
• environment
• hate crime
• knowledge
• Nation
• psychology
• service

“Mental Health, Crime and Criminal Justice (Winstone, 2016) is a refreshingly candid look at the challenges related to persons with mental illness(es). … this book is exceptionally well-edited; topics and voices cohere especially well for an edited volume. … the book remains accessible to a wider audience, with descriptions of some seemingly unfamiliar ideas. Additionally, the book, while coming out of the United Kingdom, discusses ideas in a way that renders them applicable to other national contexts as well.” (Kayla G. Jachimowski, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, clcjbooks.rutgers.edu, January, 2017)

'Criminal justice-based mental health services have been seriously grappling with internal and external pressures for many years. Various "reform" efforts have come and gone over time. Some have lingered; others have succeeded. For this valuable volume, Jane Winstone has gathered a knowledgeable international group of mental health and criminal justice scholars, researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and service-recipients. In more than a dozen articles, Winstone and her contributors present an experienced array of cogent insights, purposeful proscriptions, and sage advice that will improve day-to-day practice and program outcomes.' Russ Immarigeon, Editor, Pathways for Offender Reentry

'This is a unique and fascinating read and it's hard to imagine it going out of date for some considerable time. It contains a variety of topics drawn from quite different fields of knowledge to review the interface between criminal justice and mental health and propose solutions for the challenges faced. The issues covered include a thorough review of the intervention evidence base, psychological jurisprudence, desistance theory, trauma, and multi-agency collaboration. Winstone has done an excellent job in tying these varied themes together to produce a comprehensive text in this critical policy area.' - Graham Durcan, Associate Director, Criminal Justice Programme, Centre for Mental Health, UK

• University of Portsmouth, UK

  Jane Winstone

Bruce Arrigo, University of North Carolina, USA Heather Y. Bersot, University of North Carolina, USA Rob Canton, De Montfort University, USA Prathiba Chitsabesan, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, UK Charles de Lacy, Central Criminal Court, UK Svenja Göbbels, Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, Melbourne, Australia Taffy Gatawa, Royal Surrey County Hospital, UK Anita Green, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, UK Nathan Hall, University of Portsmouth, UK Marilyn Hammick, , Bournemouth University and Birmingham City University, UK Sarah Hean, University of Stavanger, Norway Nathan Hughes, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia and University of Birmingham, UK Lucy Jo Matthews, Independent Researcher James McGuire, University of Liverpool, UK Gillian Ormston, Intelligent Awakenings Ltd, UK Madeline Petrillo, University of Portsmouth, UK Aaron Pycroft, University of Portsmouth, UK Leighe Rogers, Surrey and Sussex Probation Trust, UK Ruth Scalley, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, UK Jo Thakker, University of Waikato, New Zealand Jemma Tyson, University of Portsmouth, UK Elizabeth Walsh, the University of Leeds, UK Tony Ward, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Jane Winstone, University of Portsmouth, UK

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