Psychiatry and the law / general editor, Warren Brookbanks ; consulting editor, Alexander Simpson.

Wellington, New Zealand : LexisNexis NZ, 2007.

64480

Mental health laws -- New Zealand.

Mental health laws -- Australia.

Forensic psychiatry -- New Zealand.

Forensic psychiatry -- Australia.

1. Responses to risk: legal parameters and service responses

2. Ethical issues in forensic psychiatry

3. Defining mental disorder

4. Implementing civil commitment: "doing with" not "doing to"

5. Forensic psychiatry and public law

6. Insanity

7. Fitness to plead

8. The sentencing and disposition of mentally disordered offenders

9. Psychiatrists as expert witnesses and report writers

10. Writing court reports

11. Schizophrenic syndrome, violent and other antisocial behaviours

12. Clinical assessment and management of violence risk in forensic populations

13. Intellectual disabilities and the law

14. Services for mentally abnormal offenders: some important issues

15. The treatment and rehabilitation of Maori in forensic mental health services

16. Delivery of mental health services in prisons

17. Liaison services to the courts

18. Rehabilitation in forensic psychiatry.

"Psychiatry and the law is the first major new work on the high-profile area of forensic psychiatry and law in Australia and New Zealand in over a decade."--BOOK JACKET.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780408718509

xxxviii, 517 p. : ill. ; 25 cm