Risk and Rehabilitation : : Management and Treatment of Substance Misuse and Mental Health Problems in the Criminal Justice System / / ed. by Aaron Pycroft, Suzie Clift.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• MitwirkendeR: Clift, Suzie,; Gough, Dennis,; Heath, Bernie,; Jennings, Paul,; Noyce, Graham,; Pakes, Francis,; Pycroft, Aaron,; Starks, Saundra,; Winstone, Jane,; van Wormer, Katherine,
• HerausgeberIn: Clift, Suzie,; Pycroft, Aaron,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)

Substance misuse (including alcohol) and mental health problems constitute a significant proportion of the work carried out in the criminal justice system. Approaches to these often intractable problems have seen the rise of a dominant risk paradigm concerned with public protection and the use of co...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Introduction
• The numbers game: a systems perspective on risk
• Risk, assessment and the practice of actuarial criminal justice
• The Mental Health Act: dual diagnosis, public protection and legal dilemmas in practice
• Risk and rehabilitation: a fusion of concepts?
• Seeking out rehabilitation within the Drug Rehabilitation Requirement
• The Mental Health Treatment Requirement: the promise and the practice
• The Alcohol Treatment Requirement: drunk but compliant
• Community Orders and the Mental Health Court pilot: a service user perspective of what constitutes a quality, effective intervention
• Therapeutic jurisprudence, drug courts and mental health courts: the US experience
• Relationship and rehabilitation in a post-‘what works’ era
• Index