Nothing left to lose? Freedom and compulsion in the treatment of dangerous offenders

Taylor, Colin

doi:10.1080/14753634.2011.587638

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“…This dual focus, which incorporates the need to maintain awareness of the potential for community harm, may lead to difficulties in maintaining a recovery focus, over and above difficulties experienced in different areas of the mental health system (Mann, Matias, & Allen, 2014;Shepherd et al, 2015). The physical security of forensic settings (such as a 17 foot high fence; C. Taylor, 2011) may also impact on the social climate. Most patients are involuntarily detained, and in a UK context their treatment may also be subject to governmental oversight, which can lead to a sense of powerlessness in patients (Livingston, Nijdam-Jones, & Brink, 2012).…”

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Social climate in forensic mental health settings: A systematic review of qualitative studies

Doyle

Quayle

Newman

2017

Aggression and Violent Behavior

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“…The Good Lives model may provide a model of care that emphasises empowerment while maintaining a focus on risk management. Therapeutic community approaches have also been used in forensic personality disorder (C. Taylor, 2011) and intellectual disability services (J.…”

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Social climate in forensic mental health settings: A systematic review of qualitative studies

Doyle

Quayle

Newman

2017

Aggression and Violent Behavior

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“…The obligatory nature of the program might appear to sit uneasily within a TC framework (Taylor, ), but these men have reached a time when they long to embrace change, and to discover that their lives have at least the possibility of being both less painful and more rewarding. Newcomers start attending community meetings immediately and offences are disclosed with each new arrival, so as to demonstrate an openness, tolerance and acceptance of the basic task.…”

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The Inpatient Treatment of Personality‐disordered Offenders: Multidisciplinary Successes and Tensions

Taylor¹

2015

Appl Psychoanal Studies

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The "Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder" (DSPD) program of pilot treatment units was established following the high profile double homicide of a mother and one of her two daughters: the very kind of stranger killing that, although in fact extremely rare, the public identifies with most fearfully. This paper describes one of the medium secure DSPD services in terms of the nature of the patients' difficulties, and the treatment model that was established to address the dual task of reducing the risks they pose to the public and improving psychological health. The impact upon staff and upon teams working with such a disturbed and dangerous group of men is explored.

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Law and Personality Disorder

O'Loughlin

2024

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This book examines how legal and policy actors negotiate the demands of controlling crime and respecting individual rights against a background of uncertain scientific knowledge. Bringing together insights from criminology, psychiatry, psychology, and law, it unpicks competing images of ‘dangerous’ offenders and the dilemmas they present. It does so by tracing the creation of a new group—‘dangerous people with severe personality disorders’—by policymakers in England and Wales in 1999—and by situating contemporary debates about ‘dangerous’ offenders within a historical context. Through a critique of sentencing law, mental health law, and human rights law, this book further examines an alluring narrative: that the state has a duty to protect the public from ‘dangerous’ individuals, but that it can protect the human rights of the ‘dangerous’ by providing them with rehabilitation opportunities. While human rights law is often invoked as a means of curbing the excesses of preventive justice, this book demonstrates that the European Court of Human Rights tends to legitimize coercive measures. Furthermore, the criminal law legitimizes the punishment of offenders with mental disorders by resisting psychiatric evidence that they are not fully responsible for their actions. But the law also has the resources to tackle these seemingly intractable dilemmas, and this book therefore puts forward modest reform proposals.

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Nothing left to lose? Freedom and compulsion in the treatment of dangerous offenders

Cited by 15 publications

References 14 publications

Social climate in forensic mental health settings: A systematic review of qualitative studies

Social climate in forensic mental health settings: A systematic review of qualitative studies

The Inpatient Treatment of Personality‐disordered Offenders: Multidisciplinary Successes and Tensions

Law and Personality Disorder

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