This book gives full recognition that people who offend against the law often do so because of a myriad of individual and social problems, and in careful, thoughtful and insightful fashion the authors give attention to the need for better links between mental health, welfare and criminal justice systems. The contributors question and challenge received wisdom, law and policy in relation to people who offend, and set out a new paradigm for effective work between forensic mental health and human support services. This is an excellent, authoritative and thought-provoking collection of essays.
Loraine Gelsthorpe, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge and
President of the British Society of Criminology, UK
Practitioners, policymakers and researchers will all find this book valuable. The editors of this text define forensic mental health matters broadly and have assembled an international, interdisciplinary team of contributors. What results is a sharing of perspectives, paradigms and strategies that is unmatched by any other publication devoted to forensic mental health administration, policy and practice.
Randy K. Otto, Associate Professor, Departments of Mental Health Law and
Policy, Psychology, and Criminology, University of South Florida, USA
Working within the Forensic Paradigm
Forensic work occurs across the criminal justice sector and the legal and health professions and intersects with work in a range of areas, such as child protection, family welfare, mental health, offending, disability, addictions, family violence programmes, juvenile justice and sexual assault centres. This book offers contemporary perspectives on forensic policy and practice from the range of practitioners working with people within the forensic domain and canvasses ideas about risk and offending behaviours together with ideas about effective responses to rehabilitation and recovery.
The contributors to this book are drawn from the practitioners, policy contributors, advocates and researchers in mental health, welfare, law, criminology, policing and health. Negligible attention has been paid to forensic policy and practice; this book offers crossnational attention to how mental health, welfare and justice systems intersect, who they affect, and how practitioners structure effective responses for vulnerable people within the forensic domain.
A particular strength of the book is its international focus, making it relevant to academics and practitioners who work in this field around the world.
Rosemary Sheehan is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work, Monash University, Australia. Her published research has looked at child welfare and the law, mental health and judicial and corrections responses to offenders, with particular reference to women offenders. Her recent research developed a specialist list project in the Childrens Court of Victoria to hear matters involving child sexual abuse; she recently completed a major study of women exiting prison.
James Ogloff is the Professor and Director of Forensic Behavioural Science at Swinburne University and Director of Psychological Services and Research at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health (Forensicare). He is trained as a psychologist and lawyer, a Fellow of the Canadian, American and Australian psychological societies. His research addresses violence risk prediction, psychopathy and jury decision-making, and long-term outcomes for children who have been sexually abused.
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