Forensic psychiatry and public protection.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1192/bjp.bp.111.095471.
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Abstract
The prominence of risk in UK social and criminal justice policy creates opportunities, challenges and dangers for forensic psychiatry. The future standing of the specialty will depend not only on the practical utility of its responses to those opportunities and challenges, but also the ethical integrity of those responses.
Medical subject headings
- Forensic Psychiatry
- Personality Disorders
- Public Policy