Diversion From Custody for Mentally Disordered Offenders - A Practical Guide

List of contents

Contents: Foreword by Timothy F. Durkin, Chairman, MIND; Acknowledgements; Why are people with mental health problems sent to prison?; Development of diversion projects nationally; Turning vision into reality; Key points of intervention; The role of the prison; Diversion into what?; Funding and managing a project; Record keeping, monitoring and evaluation; The future of the project; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Catherine Staite is the Director of North Humberside MIND and chairs the North Humberside Forum on Mentally Disordered Offenders. Neill Martin is a Senior Probation Officer. Michael Bingham is an Inspector with Humberside Police. Rannoch Dally is Governor of HM Prison Hull.

Summary

The authors aim to provide practical guidance to enable practitioners in the various criminal justice, health and social care agencies to divert mentally disordered offenders from prosecution and custody and to help prevent re-offending.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Bingham, Rannoch Daly, Daly Rannoch, Neill Martin, Martin Neill, STAITE, Catherine Staite, Catherine Martin Staite, Staite Catherine
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781138415577
• ISBN: 978-1-138-41557-7
• No. of pages: 166
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology