Practical forensic psychiatry / by Dharjinder Singh Rooprai, Tom Clark.

includes index.

The development of forensic psychiatric services -- Entry into secure care -- Treatment and outcomes in secure care -- Challenging issues in secure care -- Leaving secure care and community follow-up -- Risk of violence assessment -- Psychosis and offending -- Mood disorders, neuroses and offending -- Personality disorders and offending -- Learning disability, autistic spectrum disorders and offending -- Women in secure care -- Children and adolescents in secure care -- Sex offenders, stalkers and fire setters -- Crime and criminology -- The criminal law and sentencing -- Psychiatry and the police -- Psychiatry and the c criminal justice system -- Prisons and prisoners -- Mental health care in prisons -- Psychiatric issues in criminal courts -- Providing expert evidence to criminal courts.