title: Forensic psychiatry and public protection.
abstract: The prominence of risk in UK social and criminal justice policy creates opportunities, challenges and dangers for forensic psychiatry. The future standing of the specialty will depend not only on the practical utility of its responses to those opportunities and challenges, but also the ethical integrity of those responses.
authors.forename: Alec
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Buchanan
authors.forename: Adrian
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Grounds
mesh_terms: D003134:Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D003415:Crime / Q000517:prevention & control; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D011640:Public Policy; D012308:Risk Management; D006113:United Kingdom