What is the nature of the relationship between mental disability and crime? This chapter examines its nature, scope, direction, and implications for the study of criminology. Its early sections critically assess issues of definition, causation and of the success of treatment interventions. Its latter part reviews developments in policy and the emerging blurring of risk-oriented and therapeutic objectives. It concludes by urging a more sophisticated and less discriminatory approach to the field, which does not focus on diagnoses but rather on a holistic understanding of the relationship between people and crime.
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28. Mental health, mental disabilities, and crime
Jill Peay
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9. Mental health, mental disabilities, and crime
Ailbhe O’Loughlin and Jill Peay
What is the nature of the relationship between mental disability and crime? This chapter examines its nature, scope, direction, and implications for the study of criminology. Its early sections critically assess issues of definition, causation, and of the success of treatment interventions. Its latter part reviews developments in policy and the emerging blurring of risk-oriented and therapeutic objectives. It concludes by urging a more sophisticated and less discriminatory approach to the field, which does not focus on diagnoses but rather on a holistic understanding of the relationship between people and crime.
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2. Critical Frameworks in Bioethics
A. M. Farrell and E. S. Dove
This chapter digs deeper into the theories and critical frameworks that are widely used to characterise the concerns, interests, and principles at stake in ethical challenges arising in medicine and health-related contexts and that we can use to justify our responses to these challenges. In doing bioethics we are required to challenge easy assumptions and to interrogate the relevance and persuasiveness of reasons that might be given for ethical positions. The range of responses to questions surveyed in this chapter—such as what matters? Who matters? What defines right and wrong? And what does justice demand of us?—provide a range of frameworks that can be used in this critical endeavour.
