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1. Managing Fear

   The Law and Ethics of Preventive Detention and Risk Assessment

   By Bernadette Mcsherry

   Series: International Perspectives on Forensic Mental Health

   Managing Fear examines the growing use of risk assessment as it relates to preventive detention and supervision schemes for offenders perceived to be at a high risk of re-offending, individuals with severe mental illness, and suspected terrorists. It outlines a number of legislative regimes in...

   To Be Published August 18th 2013 by Routledge
2. Coercive Care

   Rights, Law and Policy

   Edited by Bernadette Mcsherry, Ian Freckelton

   Series: Biomedical Law and Ethics Library

   There has been much debate about mental health law reform and mental capacity legislation in recent years with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities also having a major impact on thinking about the issue. This edited volume explores the concept of ‘coercive care’ in relation...

   To Be Published July 9th 2013 by Routledge
3. Dangerous People

   Policy, Prediction, and Practice

   Edited by Bernadette McSherry, Patrick Keyzer

   Series: International Perspectives on Forensic Mental Health

   Experienced legal academics and mental health professionals explore the current approaches to “dangerousness” and preventive detention. The defining characteristics of those deemed dangerous by society vary according to culture, place, and time, and the contributors to this text have gathered to...

   Published July 5th 2011 by Routledge