Diverted to where? What happens to the diverted mentally disordered offender
| Autor: | Robert Rowlands, Heather Inch, William Rodger, Ahmed Soliman |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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| Zdroj: | The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry. 7:284-296 |
| ISSN: | 1469-9478 0958-5184 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09585189608415013 |
| Popis: | This study describes a court diversion scheme in a provincial city. Its focus is a forensic community psychiatric nurse specialist. Data are presented on the scheme's first year of operation from May 1993 with follow-up at mean of 12 months. Substance misuse problems were common and most of these patients lost contact with the psychiatric services. None of those with identified psychotic illnesses was in prison at follow-up and the majority with these diagnoses remained in contact with services. Those with psychotic illnesses showed the greater symptomatic benefit whereas more than two-thirds of those with other diagnoses appeared to show little benefit from the psychiatric intervention arising out of the court diversion. At follow-up, most patients were living in the community. The reoffending rate was 17 per cent over the study period. The study demonstrates that diversion schemes can run successfully with the nurse as the main focus but that there is a high default rate among mentally disorder... |
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