Multi-agency public protection panels for dangerous offenders: One London forensic team's experience

Autor: Humphrey Needham-Bennett, Gisli H. Gudjonsson, Susan Young
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology. 16:312-327
ISSN: 1478-9957
1478-9949
DOI: 10.1080/14789940500097899
Popis: In this article the authors discuss the contribution of a forensic community team to a multi-agency public protection panel (MAPPP) held in a borough within the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. The clinical service provision was audited over a 21-month period between October 2001 and July 2003. The purpose of the audit was to evaluate the clinical demand of MAPPP liaison and determine resource implications. This audit identified a number of important issues, which are discussed, including the crucial role and contribution of mental health teams, the additional burden on clinical teams, the absence of increased resources, the lack of protocols and guidelines, ambiguity about the ‘duty to co-operate’, poor integration of criminal justice system members' views about risk with a forensic mental health perspective, and lack of co-operation of non-patient offenders with mental health teams. A challenging task that faces mental health teams is how to integrate forensic services effectively and ethically with...
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