A sexual health programme was set up specifically to target mentally ill individuals, providing a distinct group of interventions designed to assist this specialist cohort in acquiring knowledge, skills, and attitudes that will directly contribute to their mental health. The programme consisted of gender-specific and mixed groups, a drop-in service, condom provision and a full-time programme coordinator. Areas covered were safer-sex, knowledge of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, assertiveness and practical skills of condom use. Mental health nurses possessed the skills to offer sexual health advice to mentally ill individuals. Mentally ill individuals were enthusiastic to attend groups, and were able to participate in the programme.
Narrative has become an important paradgm in both psychology and semiotics (Section 1). "hree applications of narrative theory to fact fin@ in c r h k d cases-Bennett & Fcldman (1981), Jackson (1988u, derived from the semiotics of Greimas), Wagenaar (1995; Wagenaar, van Koppen & Crombag, 1993-e here compaitd in terms of their conceptions of narrative, application to the cowtmom process itself, and epistemological assumptions (Sections 24). A recent English case, regarded by some as a miscdagc of justice, is used as a case study to illustrate different approaches from psychology and semiotics (Section 5). The Conclusion (Section 6) considers the potential 'remediability' of the courtroom search for truth implied by these various approaches, and the implications of this analysis for the interdisciplinary study of witness testimony and jury research in the 'normal' case (where there is no suggestion of miscamage of justice). ' In the first draft of this paper, I relied upon notes taken at Professor Wagenaar's plenary lecture at the Third European Conference of Law and Psychology, Oxford, September 1992, and on his abstract. This is now reviewed in the light of Wagenaar et d (1993)-but still cited, for convenience, simply as Wagennv (and with singular pronouns: no disrespect is thus intended to van Koppen and Cromblg). I have had very late access to the version of Wagcnaar's paper to be published in the (eventual) conference volume (Wagenaar, 1995, in the references). There appears to he some terminological variation between the book and the lecture in respect of 'ground' vs. 'connection' (but not used in Wagenaar, 1935), which might turn out to be theoretically significant. I therefore cite (my notes o f ) the 1992 lecture as '1992'. the book as '1993', and the published version of the lecture as '1995'.There is no j q in the Netherlands: criminal trials 'of any impomce' u e held before a panel of three professional judges (1993, p. 18).
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