Mental Health, Crime and Justice brings together original and state of the art contributions from theoretical, empirical, and policy-related scholarship concerned with the ways people with mental health illnesses are understood, 'managed', 'controlled' and responded to. Drawing on critical scholarship from a variety of disciplines, the collection pays careful attention to the controversial relationship between mental health and crime, as well as key issues relating to justice and social harm. It presents a synthesis of discipline-specific approaches, from law, psychiatry, sociology, and criminology, but will also bridge together developments in both theory and practice.

The book explores the relationship between mental health and crime by deconstructing and analysing two important facets of the justice system: (1) the various ways in which people with mental disorder navigate and are navigated through the criminal justice (and forensic mental health) system(s); and (2) how so called 'problematised populations' are governed, with a particular emphasis on mental health as an unfolding dimension of social harm.

Unique to this volume, well-rehearsed debates are cross-examined with contemporary critiques about social harm and justice. By considering the multifaceted dimensions of violence to include 'gendered', 'structural', and 'systemic', this book provides a nuanced insight that exposes the controversial relationship that is said to exist between mental health and crime. The collection seeks to highlight the harm and injustice that people with mental health disorders are subject to when interacting with the criminal justice system.

Cross-examines existing debate and theory with contemporary critiques Highlights the injustice that people with mental health disorders experience in the criminal justice system Explores violence through the dimensions of gender, structural and systemic

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Samantha Weston is Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her expertise lies within the area of risk prevention and early intervention. Through her research, Samantha has encouraged the use of criminology as an interdisciplinary lens to understand the intersections between health, social care and criminal justice resulting in a wide range of publications including the book, Mental Health and Offending: Care, Coercion and Control (co-authored with Dr Julie Trebilcock) which was published by Routledge in 2019. Julie Trebilcock is Reader in Criminology at Brunel University of London, UK, with nearly fifteen years of experience working in and researching forensic mental health and imprisonment. Julie's research has been primarily focused with the management of violent and sexual offenders with personality disorder.

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.- Introduction.

.- SECTION I: POLICY AND PRACTICE AT THE INTERSECTION OF MENTAL HEALTH AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE.

.- Chapter 1: Criminal Justice Liaison and Diversion: An assessment of policy in practice , Jo Wells, Bournemouth University.

.- Chapter 2: . A complete gamechanger: the direct impact of COVID-19 on the policing response to 'vulnerability', Laura Briody, Sam Weston (Keele University), Sandra Walklate (University Of Liverpool).

.- Chapter 3: The Philosophies and Models of Prison Mental Healthcare in England & Wales: outside inside. Wendy Dyer (Northumbria University).

.- Chapter 4: The Need for Practicable Normative Rights-Based Practice in Secure and Forensic Mental Health Services. Sarah Markham (Kings College London).

.- Chapter 5: Processes of institutionalization and exclusion of mentally ill offenders. The Italian case. Daniela Ronco And Giovanni Torrente (University Of Torino).

.- Chapter 6: Controlling or Caring? Theories and practices of (neo)institutionalization into a deinstitutionalised country. Perla Arianna Allegri and Michele Miravalle (University of Torino).

.- Chapter 7: The Penrose Hypothesis and the era of mass incarceration. Ian Cummins (University Of Salford).

.- Chapter 8: The Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway in England and Wales: Progress, politics, and parole. Julie Trebilcock (Brunel University London).

.- SECTION II: MENTAL HEALTH AS AN UNFOLDING DIMENSION OF SOCIAL HARM: THE GOVERNANCE OF 'PROBLEMATISED' POPULATIONS.

.- Chapter 9: Challenging the governance paradigm for Women's mental health: from risk to resilience. Rebecca Gomm (University of Roehampton).

.- Chapter 10: The military as a continuation site of social harm. Hannah Wilkinson, University of Nottingham.

.- Chapter 11: Tainted Police Officers, Mental Health and Occupational Hesitancy. John McDaniel (University of Wolverhampton).

.- Chapter 12: Mental health, criminal records and disclosure. Andrew Henley (University of Nottingham).

.- Chapter 13: Exploring the boundary between harm and criminalization of behaviours in the digital world. Lauren Doyle (University of Sunderland).

.- Chapter 14: 'If I wasn't on drugs or I didn't take anything, I wouldn't be here. They make me feel that fucking bad': An exploration of the everyday lives of people who use drugs coping with stigma as social harm. Michelle Addison (Durham University).

.- Chapter 15: Watching, Waiting, and Wondering: Re-examining the link between Autism Spectrum Disorder and Violence. Helena Gosling, Tracie Hamel, Janet Jamieson and William McGowan (Liverpool John Moores University).

.- Chapter 16: Terrorism, Radicalisation and Mental Health: Unravelling the connections and illuminating the contradictions. Samantha Weston (Keel University) and Gabe Mythen (University of Liverpool).

.- Conclusion: Understanding mental health through the lens of social harm and justice.