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16 J. Forensic Psychiatry & Psych. 1 (2005)

handle is hein.journals/jnlofncpy16 and id is 1 raw text is: The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, Routledge March 2005; 16(1): 1-10 RTaylor&FrancsGroup EDITORIAL Mental Health and Criminal Justice partnerships: A case study from the substance misuse field J. KEENE, J. RODRIGUEZ, & D. BADGER The paper 'Mentally disordered offenders: A case linkage study of Criminal Justice and Mental Health populations', provides an example of how shared care population data could inform the development of inter-agency partnerships, particularly between mental health and criminal justice professionals. It identifies the total client population shared between criminal justice and mental health agencies in one geographic area. It demonstrates that the risks of offending are higher, and patterns of offending are less age and gender specific, in mental health populations. It also identifies two distinct mental health 'care populations'. It shows how this type of information could be used to inform and support inter-agency criminal justice and mental health partnerships within the context of Government policy initiatives. The study also raised a series of wider issues concerning the advantages and disadvantages of these inter-agency partnerships, which are not addressed in the paper. This editorial is designed to address these wider issues within the context of the newly published Draft Mental Health Bill (Department of Health, 2004), particularly the relationship between treatment on the one hand and compliance, coercion and compulsion on the other. Compliance has always been problematic as part of treatment, particularly in the mental health and substance misuse fields. Until recently the elements of coercion and compulsion have been very strictly and narrowly defined, but there are indications they are now being widened in significant ways. The editorial will first outline the range of concerns about integrating criminal justice and mental health functions raised in response to the Draft Mental Health Bill. It will than present a case example to illustrate how integration between criminal justice and treatment aims and methods has been achieved in another area, the substance misuse field, through the ISSN 1478-9949 print/ISSN 1478-9957 online © 2005 Taylor & Francis Group Ltd DOI: 10.1080/1478994042000270265

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