Peter Bartlett (Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Professor of M, Ralph Sandland (University of Nottingha Associate Professor in Law

MENT HEALTH LAW POL & PRAC 4E P

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This text provides a detailed overview of mental health law and the socio-legal, historical, sociological, and cultural issues related to them. The role of the law and medical treatments in regulating and controlling deviance are explored alongside the fundamental rights and liberties of some of society's most vulnerable people.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 4 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 710
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1204g
• ISBN-13: 9780199661503
• ISBN-10: 0199661502
• Artikelnr.: 40185018

Autorenporträt

Peter Bartlett is Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Professor of Mental Health Law in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nottingham Ralph Sandland is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nottingham

Inhaltsangabe

1: Conceptualising mental health law
2: An overview of the contemporary mental health system
3: Community care
4: The Mental Capacity Act
5: Deprivation of liberty under the Mental Capacity Act 2005
6: Civil detention under the Mental Health Act
7: Policing mental disorder
8: Mental disorder and criminal justice
9: Medical treatment
10: Control in the community
11: Ending compulsion under the Mental Health Act
12: Legal responses and advocacy for clients