title: Whither mental health legislation? (Locking up the disturbed and the deviant).
abstract: The publication of the Government's two-part White Paper - Reforming The Mental Health Act - provides the opportunity to review and comment upon some of its main proposals against a background of current concerns with issues of public protection in mental health and criminal justice.
authors.affiliation: Midlands Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, Loughborough University.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Prins
mesh_terms: D003134:Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006113:United Kingdom