Trends in Length of Stay at Broadmoor

Tidmarsh, David

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“…Although the percentage of women and men convicted of homicide was almost identical in the original cohort (14% women v. 15% men) (Tennent et al, 1976), by 1977-9 twice as many male as female admissions had committed homicide (Hamilton, 1985). Yet, despite being less criminal on admission, women are kept in maximum-security hospitals longer than men (Tidmarsh, 1980). In medium-secure provisions, women are more likely than men to be detained 1995), more likely to be detained under a civil section (Milne et al, 1995) and more likely to be transferred on to a Special Hospital.…”

Section: F E M a L E S P E C I A L H O S P I T A L P A T I E N T S 35mentioning

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Special women, special needs: A descriptive study of female special hospital patients

Bland

Mezey

Dolan

1999

The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry

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Special women, special needs: A descriptive study of female special hospital patients

Bland

Mezey

Dolan

1999

The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry

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“…Data are not available on the average length of stay but Tidmarsh has shown that in Broadmoor in 1979 the mean length of stay of the resident population was 6.5 years. On the other hand, more than 48 per cent stayed longer than 5 years and some 10 per cent had been there for more than 16 years (Tidmarsh, 1980). The figures for all the special hospitals in 1973 show 70 first admissions and 301 readmissions as against 313 discharges and deaths: an increase of 58.…”

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Regional Secure Units: The Creation of a Policy

Torpy¹

1989

J. Soc. Pol.

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This paper examines the historical context of the policy decision of the (then) DHSS in July 1974 to establish Regional Secure Units with an initial provision for 1,000 places. A brief examination of the history of the detention of the criminally insane and the setting up of the county asylums is followed by an examination of the various problems faced by the authorities concerned with the care of the criminally insane and the mentally ill in general in the 1960s. The paper examines the different streams of influence and power that converged upon this solution: government, special hospitals, public inquiries, unlocking of hospital wards, criminal law, DHSS and the Home Office, judges, voluntary bodies, prisons, psychiatrists and the official government reports known as the Glancy and the Butler Reports. The paper seeks to explain the policy decision to build regional secure units as a dynamic outcome arising from the confluence of opportunities, participants and solutions: a policy formation model put forward by March and Olsen (1976).

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“…The Reed Report (Department of Health and Home Office, 1992) identified women offenders and people with intellectual disabilities as special groups and noted how women appeared to be detained in high security because of the lack of other types of facility rather than needing high security per se. Bland et al (1999) noted that women are a minority within England's special hospital population making up between 10 and 11 per cent of the patients in Broadmoor, Rampton and Ashworth special Hospitals and that women, although more ''psychiatric'' and less ''criminal'' than men tended to remain in high security longer than men (Bartlett, 1993;Tidmarsh, 1980). Thompson et al (2001) reviewed female admissions to Carstairs Hospital (the high security hospital serving Scotland and Northern Ireland at this time) between 1992 and 1993 and commented that despite having absent or lesser index offences, there was some evidence that women patients were more controlled and restricted than their male counterparts.…”

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Women with intellectual disability in secure settings and their mental health needs

Beber

2012

Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities

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Purpose -This article aims to describe the development of secure services for women with intellectual disability in the UK and to outline what is known about their mental health needs.Design/methodology/approach -The paper is a general review which is based on what is known historically about the subject, findings from the current literature and the author's own personal knowledge of these specialist services.Findings -Secure services for women with intellectual disability have developed out of mainstream forensic and learning disability services.Originality/value -Although there is a reasonable body of literature on offending in the intellectually disabled population as a whole, little of this is specific to women. Despite this, the evidence there is suggests that women continue to require secure services and that they have significant mental health needs.There are differences in the family and social context of women's and men's lives, the experience and impact of life events, the presentation and character of their mental ill-health and consequently their care and treatment needs. These differences must be understood by policy makers and those planning and delivering services (Department of Health (DH), 2002).

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Trends in Length of Stay at Broadmoor

Cited by 4 publications

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Special women, special needs: A descriptive study of female special hospital patients

Special women, special needs: A descriptive study of female special hospital patients

Regional Secure Units: The Creation of a Policy

Women with intellectual disability in secure settings and their mental health needs

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