Add to ORKGIn August of 1971, the Solicitor General of Canada appointed a committee of psychiatrists to advise him on the treatment of mentally ill inmates. The committee completed its work and reported in May 1972. The report, entitled The General Program for the Development of Psychiatric Services in Federal Correctional Services in Canada1 developed in the space of sixty pages, including appendices, a general program for expanding psychiatric services and facilities in the field of corrections in Canada. In his forward to the Report, the Solicitor General, Warren Allmand, announces that he is profoundly impressed by the recommendations made by this authoritative body . Further, he has directed that the psychiatric services of the federal Correctio...
Background: Specialty courts, based on the concept of therapeutic jurisprudence (TJ) are spreading r...
It has become apparent that the two disciplines of law and psychiatry have a common interface in t...
This paper examines the plight of the incarcerated mentally ill. After a consideration of the histor...
In August of 1971, the Solicitor General of Canada appointed a committee of psychiatrists to advise ...
The Nova Scotia Psychiatric Facilities Review Board, appointed under s. 53 of the Hospitals Act1, fu...
Human services and program evaluation literature suggests that correctional policy must be formulate...
Depsite advanced developments in the treatment of mental illness, Nova Scotia has until recently pos...
This thesis addresses the growing number of inmates with a mental illness in correctional facilities...
Mental health law in Canada has traditionally shared many common themes with the mental health law o...
This article summarizes data collected from 248 pretrial cases assessed by forensic psychiatrists fo...
Psychiatric involvement in the criminal justice system in Australia is an area from which little emp...
A number of recent events makes it timely to reconsider certain aspects of the relation between psyc...
Far-reaching structural changes have been made in the mental health system. Many severely mentally i...
This dissertation focuses on understandings of mental illness and on the organization and delivery o...
One of the great debates in criminology and psychiatry is whether criminals should be viewed as ment...
Background: Specialty courts, based on the concept of therapeutic jurisprudence (TJ) are spreading r...
It has become apparent that the two disciplines of law and psychiatry have a common interface in t...
This paper examines the plight of the incarcerated mentally ill. After a consideration of the histor...
In August of 1971, the Solicitor General of Canada appointed a committee of psychiatrists to advise ...
The Nova Scotia Psychiatric Facilities Review Board, appointed under s. 53 of the Hospitals Act1, fu...
Human services and program evaluation literature suggests that correctional policy must be formulate...
Depsite advanced developments in the treatment of mental illness, Nova Scotia has until recently pos...
This thesis addresses the growing number of inmates with a mental illness in correctional facilities...
Mental health law in Canada has traditionally shared many common themes with the mental health law o...
This article summarizes data collected from 248 pretrial cases assessed by forensic psychiatrists fo...
Psychiatric involvement in the criminal justice system in Australia is an area from which little emp...
A number of recent events makes it timely to reconsider certain aspects of the relation between psyc...
Far-reaching structural changes have been made in the mental health system. Many severely mentally i...
This dissertation focuses on understandings of mental illness and on the organization and delivery o...
One of the great debates in criminology and psychiatry is whether criminals should be viewed as ment...
Background: Specialty courts, based on the concept of therapeutic jurisprudence (TJ) are spreading r...
It has become apparent that the two disciplines of law and psychiatry have a common interface in t...
This paper examines the plight of the incarcerated mentally ill. After a consideration of the histor...