Name: Is Diversion Just a Diversion?
Creator: Herschel Prins
Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Prisons, Humans, 16. Peace & justice, United Kingdom, Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders, 3. Good health

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Apr 1994 English Publisher:SAGE PublicationsJournal:Medicine, Science and the Law, volume 34, pages 137-147 (issn: 0025-8024, eissn: 2042-1818,

Authors: Herschel Prins;

doi: 10.1177/002580249403400209

pmid: 8028489

Is Diversion Just a Diversion?

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Abstract

This paper examines the diversion of the mentally disordered offender against a background of the treatment of the mentally disordered in general. Some myths about incarceration are explored and the proposal is made that diversion is not a new idea. Finally, caution is expressed in the espousal of diversion in an uncritical fashion.

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Loughborough University
United Kingdom

Keywords

Prisons, Humans, United Kingdom, Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders

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