Crime and punishment: Pakistan's legal failure to account for mental illness
| Autor: | Romesa Qaiser Khan, Abdul Moiz Khan |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Předmět: |
low and middle income countries
Human rights Jurisdiction media_common.quotation_subject Legislation Mental Health Law Profile Criminology Mental illness medicine.disease psychiatry and law human rights Mental health 030227 psychiatry Scientific evidence 03 medical and health sciences Psychiatry and Mental health Suicide transcultural psychiatry 0302 clinical medicine Political science medicine Transcultural Psychiatry 030212 general & internal medicine Blasphemy media_common |
| Zdroj: | BJPsych International |
| ISSN: | 2058-6264 2056-4740 |
| Popis: | 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 Pakistan brings with it unique challenges, such as the criminalisation of suicide and exploitation of blasphemy laws. There is a need for organised efforts to promote awareness of mental illness, amend the obsolete legislation in conformity with the scientific evidence, implement mental health policy effectively and deal with sensitive issues that have a strong sociocultural or religious background. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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