The Future of Mental Health, Disability and Criminal Law (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Wilson, Kay; Walvisch, Jamie; Gooding, Piers; Maker, Yvette

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents contributions from world-leading scholars and commentators that address a range of contemporary and pressing international themes in mental health, disability and criminal law. The authors use the work of Bernadette McSherry to reflect on recent developments in these areas and to anticipate future directions they may take.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000954692
• Artikelnr.: 68694307

Autorenporträt

Kay Wilson is a Melbourne Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Melbourne Law School and Melbourne Social Equity Institute. Yvette Maker is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Tasmania, Australia and an Honorary Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne. Piers Gooding is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School and an Associate of the Melbourne Social Equity Institute. Jamie Walvisch is a Senior Lecturer at the Melbourne Law School.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword; Preface; Part I: Reforming Mental Health and Disability Law; 1.
What is the Future of Mental Health, Disability and Criminal Law? 2. Making
the Future Happen: Law Reform Lessons from the Victorian Royal Commission;
3. The Human Right to Health and the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022
(Vic); 4. Benefitting from Hindsight: What the Mental Capacity Act and Its
Implementation Can Teach Us About CRPD Implementation; Part II: Regulating
Coercion and Restrictive Practices; 5. Who Approves the Use of Restrictive
Practices in Australia? The Case for a Uniform Authorisation Process; 6.
Chemical Restraint Use and Reform in Health Care and Disability Settings;
7. Who Do We Turn To? Safeguarding Residents in Aged Care Settings from
Abuse and Neglect in New Zealand; 8. Some Concerns About Arbitrary
Detention of Elderly People in Secure Rest Home Care; Part III: Improving
Access to Justice and the Criminal Law; 9. Whydunnit?: Causal Explanations
in Sentencing Offenders With Mental Health Problems; 10. Finetuning a
Jurisprudence of Risk; 11. The Rights of Persons with Sensory Disabilities
to Participate in Juries; Part IV: Transforming Mental Health Law; 12.
Challenging the Foundations of Mental Health Law: Using Articles 12 and 14
CRPD as a Framework to Deconstruct and Reimagine Mental Health Law; 13. The
Digital Turn in Mental Health and Disability Law: Actuarial Traditions and
AI Futures of Risk Assessment From a Human Rights Perspective; 14.
Regulating Rights: Developing a Human Rights and Mental Health Regulatory
Framework; 15. Standing Up Against the Weight of History: The Importance of
Lived Experience in the Mental Health Context; Afterword