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oapen-20.500.12657-852022023-11-17T13:34:23Z The Future of Mental Health, Disability and Criminal Law Wilson, Kay Maker, Yvette Gooding, Piers Walvisch, Jamie Bernadette McSherry, Coercion, Courts, Criminal Law, Disability, Future, Law Reform, Mental Health Law, Restrictive Practices, Risk and Risk Assessment, Seclusion and Restraint, Sentencing, Technology bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LA Jurisprudence & general issues bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LN Laws of Specific jurisdictions::LNT Social law::LNTJ Public health & safety law bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LN Laws of Specific jurisdictions::LNT Social law::LNTM Medical & healthcare law bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LN Laws of Specific jurisdictions::LNT Social law::LNTM Medical & healthcare law::LNTM1 Mental health law bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MM Other branches of medicine This book brings together contributions from twenty-three world-leading scholars and commentators that address a range of contemporary and pressing international themes in mental health, disability and criminal law. The authors use the work of internationally renowned academic, Emeritus Professor Bernadette McSherry, as a springboard to reflect on recent developments in these areas of law and to anticipate the future directions they may take. In doing so, they aim to inform and inspire a new generation of mental health, disability and criminal law scholars, advocates and reformers. The book is divided into four substantive sections: reforming mental health and disability law; regulating coercion and restrictive practices; improving access to justice and the criminal law; and transforming mental health law. It also includes an introduction from the editors and an afterword from Emeritus Professor McSherry. The book is aimed at regulators, policymakers, lawyers, clinicians, consumer advocates and academics who are interested in the urgent and contentious issues surrounding the reform and development of mental health, disability and criminal law. It will help them understand the key issues and problems and presents suggestions for reform. The book is interdisciplinary and international in its focus. 2023-11-17T13:17:33Z 2023-11-17T13:17:33Z 2024 book 9781003350644 9781032396071 9781032396323 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85202 eng Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003350644 10.4324/9781003350644 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 84b663ed-9bfc-48bf-a212-bfe2ae374969 5fa0d725-bd2d-49f9-a969-885545ff34eb 9781003350644 9781032396071 9781032396323 Routledge open access
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This book brings together contributions from twenty-three world-leading scholars and commentators that address a range of contemporary and pressing international themes in mental health, disability and criminal law. The authors use the work of internationally renowned academic, Emeritus Professor Bernadette McSherry, as a springboard to reflect on recent developments in these areas of law and to anticipate the future directions they may take. In doing so, they aim to inform and inspire a new generation of mental health, disability and criminal law scholars, advocates and reformers. The book is divided into four substantive sections: reforming mental health and disability law; regulating coercion and restrictive practices; improving access to justice and the criminal law; and transforming mental health law. It also includes an introduction from the editors and an afterword from Emeritus Professor McSherry. The book is aimed at regulators, policymakers, lawyers, clinicians, consumer advocates and academics who are interested in the urgent and contentious issues surrounding the reform and development of mental health, disability and criminal law. It will help them understand the key issues and problems and presents suggestions for reform. The book is interdisciplinary and international in its focus.
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