Ethical Issues in Prison Psychiatry

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Konrad, Norbert (Editor), Völlm, Birgit (Editor), Weisstub, David N. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 46
• Subjects: Medicine.; Political science.; Ethics.; Psychiatry.; Rehabilitation.; Criminal law.; Medicine & Public Health.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Political Science.; Criminal Law.

Recent surveys demonstrate a high and possibly increasing prevalence of mental disorders in prisoners. They have an increased risk of suffering from a mental disorder that transcends countries and diagnoses. Ethical dilemmas in prison psychiatry arise from resource allocation and include issues of p...