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Crime and punishment: Pakistan's legal failure to account for mental illness

The Mental Health Ordinance 2001 was the last comprehensive legislation on mental health policy in Pakistan, replacing the Lunacy Act 1912. Since then, most of the amendments to the act have only delineated the jurisdiction of the provincial governments. Failure to account for mental illness in Paki...

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Autores principales: Khan, Romesa Qaiser, Khan, Abdul Moiz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8554968/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34747943
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2020.30