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Patients or prisoners? Time to reconsider the voting rights of mentally disordered offenders

Although the Representation of the People Act 2000 permits most psychiatric in-patients to register on the electoral register, transferred prisoners and those admitted to hospital under hospital orders remain disenfranchised by law. This article clarifies the voting rights of individuals receiving i...

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Autores principales: Rees, Gareth, Reed, James
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal College of Psychiatrists 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4967771/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27512581
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.115.050781