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Managing Fear - The Law and Ethics of Preventive Detention and Risk Assessment (Hardcover)
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Managing Fear - The Law and Ethics of Preventive Detention and Risk Assessment (Hardcover)
Series: International Perspectives on Forensic Mental Health
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Managing Fear examines the growing use of risk assessment as it
relates to preventive detention and supervision schemes for
offenders perceived to be at a high risk of re-offending,
individuals with severe mental illness, and suspected terrorists.
It outlines a number of legislative regimes in common law countries
that have broadened 'civil' (as opposed to criminal) powers of
detention and supervision. Drawing on the disciplines of
criminology and social psychology, it explores how and why such
schemes reflect a move towards curtailing liberty before harm
results rather than after a crime has occurred. Human rights and
ethical issues concerning the role of mental health practitioners
in assessing risk for the purposes of preventive detention and
supervision are explored, and regimes that require evidence from
mental health practitioners are compared with those that rely on
decision-makers' notions of 'reasonable belief' concerning the risk
of harm. Case studies are used to exemplify some of the issues
relating to how governments have attempted to manage the fear of
future harm. This book aims to educate mental health practitioners
in the law relating to preventive detention and supervision schemes
and how the legal requirements differ from clinical assessment
practices; examine the reasons why there has been a recent renewal
of preventive detention and supervision schemes in common law
countries; provide a comparative overview of existing preventive
detention and supervision schemes; and analyse the human rights
implications and the ethics of using forensic risk assessment
techniques for preventive detention and supervision schemes.
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