Tribunals on trial : a study of decision-making under the Mental Health Act 1983
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Tribunals on trial : a study of decision-making under the Mental Health Act 1983
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, c1989
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"An inquiry carried out at the Centre for Criminological Research, University of Oxford."
Bibliography: p. [246]-251
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Based on an empirical enquiry into the operation of the tribunal system, this study explains how decisions are made under the Mental Health Act 1983, from the initial application by a patient, through descriptions of tribunal hearings, to an examination of their deliberations. The author looks at individual cases and attempts to elucidate the how and why of decisions to discharge, and to explain the inherent limitations of legal safeguards functioning in therapeutic contexts.
Table of Contents
- The tribunal system - evolution and objectives
- the research setting
- praying patience - the patients' perspectives
- the responsible medical officers
- the influence of the judicial approach
- patients with classifications of psychopathic disorder and mental illness
- tribunals outside the special hospitals.
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