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Reconstructing Mental Health Law And Policy
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Book Synopsis Reconstructing Mental Health Law and Policy by : Nicola Glover-Thomas
Download or read book Reconstructing Mental Health Law and Policy written by Nicola Glover-Thomas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical, in-depth analysis of the development of contemporary mental health law in its social and political contexts.
Book Synopsis Mental Health Law by : Peter Bartlett
Download or read book Mental Health Law written by Peter Bartlett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the legal structure of the mental health system, this book explains the legal principles. It places them in the context of their practical application, the realities of patient life, and the complexities of organising care. This edition gives an analysis of the Mental Capacity Act, 2005 and the Draft Mental Health Bill.
Book Synopsis Mental Health Law: Policy and Practice by : Peter Bartlett
Download or read book Mental Health Law: Policy and Practice written by Peter Bartlett and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a detailed overview of mental health law and the socio-legal, historical, sociological, and cultural issues related to them. The role of the law and medical treatments in regulating and controlling deviance are explored alongside the fundamental rights and liberties of some of society's most vulnerable people.
Book Synopsis Back to the Asylum by : John Q. LaFond
Download or read book Back to the Asylum written by John Q. LaFond and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-06-18 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, American mental health law and policy promote the restoring of "law and order" in the community rather than protecting civil liberties for the individual. This compelling book recounts how and why mental health law is being reshaped to safeguard society rather than mentally ill citizens. The authors, both experts in the field, convincingly demonstrate how rapidly changing American values ignited two very different visions of justice for the mentally ill. They argue that during the "Liberal era"-- from 1960 to 1980-- Americans staunchly supported civil liberties for all, particularly for disadvantaged citizens like the mentally ill. Also, criminal law provided ample opportunities for mentally ill offenders to avoid criminal punishment for their crimes, and restrictive civil commitment laws made it difficult to hospitalize the mentally disabled against their will. During the "Neoconservative era"--from 1980 on-- however, the public demanded new laws as a result of the rise in crime and the increasing number of homeless in communities. These changes make it much more difficult for mentally ill offenders to escape criminal blame and far easier to put disturbed citizens into hospitals against their will. Back to the Asylum accurately describes how this abrupt shift in from protecting individual rights to protecting the community has had a major impact on the mentally ill. It examines these legal changes in their broader social context and offers a provocative analysis of these law reforms. Finally, this timely work forecasts the future of mental health law and policy as America enters the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis Rethinking Rights-Based Mental Health Laws by : Bernadette McSherry
Download or read book Rethinking Rights-Based Mental Health Laws written by Bernadette McSherry and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental health laws exist in many countries to regulate the involuntary detention and treatment of individuals with serious mental illnesses. 'Rights-based legalism' is a term used to describe mental health laws that refer to the rights of individuals with mental illnesses somewhere in their provisions. The advent of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities makes it timely to rethink the way in which the rights of individuals to autonomy and liberty are balanced against state interests in protecting individuals from harm to self or others. This collection addresses some of the current issues and problems arising from rights-based mental health laws. The chapters have been grouped in five parts as follows: - Historical Foundations - The International Human Rights Framework and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Gaps Between Law and Practice - Review Processes and the Role of Tribunals - Access to Mental Health Services Many of the chapters in this collection emphasise the importance of moving away from the limitations of a negative rights approach to mental health laws towards more positive rights of social participation. While the law may not always be the best way through which to alleviate social and personal predicaments, legislation is paramount for the functioning of the mental health system. The aim of this collection is to encourage the enactment of legal provisions governing treatment, detention and care that are workable and conform to international human rights documents.
Book Synopsis Legalized Identities by : Lucas Lixinski
Download or read book Legalized Identities written by Lucas Lixinski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural heritage is a feature of transitioning societies, from museums commemorating the end of a dictatorship to adding places like the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp to the World Heritage List. These processes are governed by specific laws, and yet transitional justice discourses tend to ignore law's role, assuming that memory in transition emerges organically. This book debunks this assumption, showing how cultural heritage law is integral to what memory and cultural identity is possible in transition. Lixinski attempts to reengage with the original promise of transitional justice: to pragmatically advance societies towards a future where atrocities will no longer happen. The promise in the UNESCO Constitution of lasting peace through cultural understanding is possible through focusing on the intersection of cultural heritage law and transitional justice, as Lixinski shows in this ground-breaking book.
Book Synopsis Moffat's Trusts Law by : Jonathan Garton
Download or read book Moffat's Trusts Law written by Jonathan Garton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 1181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest edition of Moffat's Trusts Law has been fully revised and updated to cover recent statutory developments and explores the impact of a wealth of new cases including the Supreme Court decisions in Pitt v. Holt (2013), FHR European Ventures v. Cedar Capital Partners (2014) and Williams v. Central Bank of Nigeria (2014). It has been restructured to incorporate a new chapter on the internationalisation of the trust which provides an understanding of the new directions being taken in the areas of trust law and equitable remedies. Supplementary material includes an online chapter on occupational pension schemes. With suggestions for further reading guiding the student to contemporary debates, this leading textbook retains its hallmark combination of a contextualized approach and a commercial focus, and remains the serious student's textbook of choice.
Book Synopsis Recentering the World by : Ryan Martínez Mitchell
Download or read book Recentering the World written by Ryan Martínez Mitchell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive new account of China's entry into the global legal order and its role in helping to reshape it.
Book Synopsis Law and Administration by : Carol Harlow
Download or read book Law and Administration written by Carol Harlow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 957 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a full account of administrative law in the context of social, political and economic forces shaping the law.
Book Synopsis Decisions and Dilemmas by : Jill Peay
Download or read book Decisions and Dilemmas written by Jill Peay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2003-06-03 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the field of mental health law,we entrust decisions with consequences of the utmost gravity – decisions about compulsory medical treatment and the loss of liberty – to doctors and approved social workers. Yet, how do these non-lawyers make decisions where the legitimacy of those decisions derives from law? This book examines the practical, ethical and legal terrain of duo-disciplinary decision-making: given identical cases, what dilemmas do psychiatrists and approved social workers encounter, do they reach the same or similar decisions and, most critically, how are those decisions justified? At a time of ferment in mental health law this book, through its narrative format, aids a better understanding of the dilemmas posed.
Book Synopsis Dispute Processes by : Simon Roberts
Download or read book Dispute Processes written by Simon Roberts and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-20 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging study considers the primary forms of decision-making - negotiation, mediation, and umpiring - in the context of rapidly changing discourses and practices of civil justice across many jurisdictions. Much contemporary discussion in this field, and associated projects of institutional design, are taking place under the wide ranging but imprecise label of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). If a common linking theme is sought, the authors argue that this must lie in a general shift of priorities as between judgement and settlement in ideological terms. This new edition brings together and analyses a wide range of materials dealing with dispute processes and the current debates on civil justice. With the help of a selection of texts beyond those ordinarily found in the emerging alternative dispute resolution literature it provides a broad, comparative perspective on modes of handling civil disputes, with the principal focus on the central processes of negotiation and mediation.
Download or read book Labour Law written by Hugh Collins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 1021 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the UK's foremost employment lawyers, this textbook is both comprehensive and engaging with detailed commentary and integrated materials.
Book Synopsis Back to the Asylum by : John Q. La Fond
Download or read book Back to the Asylum written by John Q. La Fond and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis New Medicalism and the Mental Health Act by : John Fanning
Download or read book New Medicalism and the Mental Health Act written by John Fanning and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years have passed since the Mental Health Act (MHA) 2007 came into force in England. An amending statute, the Act reformed the MHA 1983 and reshaped the law governing the compulsory care and treatment of people suffering from mental disorders. Primarily driven by concerns about risk, it sought to remove legalistic obstacles to civil commitment and extend the law's coercive reach into the community. At the time of its introduction, the 2007 Act was written off as a retrograde step and a missed opportunity for radical, rights-focused reform. Despite this, little attention has been paid to its impact in the years since. Published to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the 2007 Act, this book offers a timely evaluation of mental health law and policy in England. It argues that the current MHA defies easy categorisation within any of the descriptive models which have customarily narrated the mechanics of civil commitment, namely 'legalism', 'new legalism', and 'medicalism'. It therefore makes the case for a new model – new medicalism – to account for the 2007 Act's enhancement of the discretion of mental health professionals for the express purposes of facilitating the management of situations of risk. In doing so, the book: critically examines the problems inherent in civil commitment frameworks organised around the concept of risk; explores the theoretical foundations of new medicalism; considers the challenges facing proponents of future reform in the era of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and, reflects on the 2007 Act's practical impact.
Book Synopsis Globalisation and the Western Legal Tradition by : David B. Goldman
Download or read book Globalisation and the Western Legal Tradition written by David B. Goldman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-07 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can 'globalisation' teach us about law in the Western tradition? This important new work seeks to explore that question by analysing key ideas and events in the Western legal tradition, including the Papal Revolution, the Protestant Reformations and the Enlightenment. Addressing the role of law, morality and politics, it looks at the creation of orders which offer the possibility for global harmony, in particular the United Nations and the European Union. It also considers the unification of international commercial laws in the attempt to understand Western law in a time of accelerating cultural interconnections. The title will appeal to scholars of legal history and globalisation as well as students of jurisprudence and all those trying to understand globalisation and the Western dynamic of law and authority.
Download or read book Internet Law written by Chris Reed and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-07 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The common fallacy regarding cyberspace is that the Internet is a new jurisdiction, in which none of the existing rules and regulations apply. However, all the actors involved in an Internet transaction live in one or more existing jurisdictions, so rather than being unregulated, the Internet is arguably highly regulated. Worse, much of this law and regulation is contradictory and difficult, or impossible, to comply with. This 2004 book takes a global view of the fundamental legal issues raised by the advent of the Internet as an international communications mechanism. Legal and other materials are integrated to support the discussion of how technological, economic and political factors are shaping the law governing the Internet. Global trends in legal issues are addressed and the effectiveness of potential mechanisms for legal change that are applicable to Internet law are also examined. Of interest to students and practitioners in computer and electronic commerce law.
Book Synopsis The Abortion Act 1967 by : Sally Sheldon
Download or read book The Abortion Act 1967 written by Sally Sheldon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of the Abortion Act, exploring how it was shaped by and shaped a changing UK.
