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Offenders with mental disorders in prison and the courts: links to rates of civil detentions and the number of psychiatric beds in England – longitudinal data from 1984 to 2016

BACKGROUND: The Mental Health Act in England and Wales allows for two types of detention in hospital: civil and forensic detentions. An association between the closure of mental illness beds and a rise in civil detentions has been reported. AIMS: To examine changes in the rate of court orders and tr...

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Autores principales: Keown, Patrick, McKenna, Dannielle, Murphy, Hannah, McKinnon, Iain
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6854357/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31685069
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2019.73