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Ethical Issues in Prison Psychiatry

Recent surveys demonstrate a high and possibly increasing prevalence of mental disorders in prisoners. They have an increased risk of suffering from a mental disorder that transcends countries and diagnoses. Ethical dilemmas in prison psychiatry arise from resource allocation and include issues of p...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Konrad, Norbert. (Editor), Vl̲lm, Birgit. (Editor), Weisstub, David N. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 55
Subjects:
Medicine.
Ethics.
Psychiatry.
Rehabilitation.
Criminal Law.
Medicine & Public Health.
Medicine/Public Health, general.
Political Science, general.
Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0086-4
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; Prison Psychiatry (Norbert Konrad)
  • Ethics within the Prison System (Helmut Pollh̃ne)
  • Ethical Issues in Correctional Psychiatry in the United States (Henry Dlugacz Julie Y. Low, Christopher Wimmer and Lisa Knox)
  • The Evolution of Punishment and Incarceration (George B. Palermo)
  • Forensic Research With The Mentally Disordered Offender (Julio Arboleda-Flr̤ez and David Weisstub)
  • Special problems in different countries
  • Ethical issues in Australian prison psychiatry (Danny Sullivan)
  • Penitentiary mental health care in Belgium (Paul Cosyns and Kris Goethals)
  • Ethical Issues in Prison Psychiatry: Forensic mental health care in Brazil (Jos ̌G. V. Taborda, Lisieux E. de B. Telles, Maurc̕io Cardoso, Helena D.C.Bins)
  • Psychiatric treatment in the detention systems of Quebec, trying to merge carceral and therapeutic cultures (Jocelyne Aubut, Jean-Luc Dubreucq, Marie-Hľn̈e Rǧnier)
  • Ethical issues in German Prison Psychiatry (Norbert Konrad)
  • Mentally ill prisoners: Indian perspective (Siva Nambi, Janannathan Srinivasaraghavan)
  • Ethical Issues in Prison Psychiatry in Israel (Jacob Margolin, Moshe Birger, Eliezer Witztum)
  • Current status of prison psychiatry and its relationship with general psychiatry in Japan (Yoji Nakatani, Osamu Kuroda)
  • Overcrowded Prisons And Low Psychiatric Provision: The Situation Of Mentally Ill Prisoners In Kenya (David Ndetai and Muthoni Mathai)
  • Ethical Problems of Forensic and Prison Psychiatry in Latvia (M<U+0001>ris Taube)
  • Ethical Issues in Prison Psychiatry in the Netherlands (E.D.M. Masthoff, B.H. Bulten)
  • Ethical isues in prison psychiatry in Romńia (Nicoleta T<U+0003>taru)
  • Ethical issues of mental health care in the Slovene prison system (Vita Poatuvan, Tanja Madjar)
  • Quality and ethical problems of mental health services in prisons in Spain (Luis Fernando Barrios Flores & Francisco Torres-Gonzl̀es)
  • Ethical isues in prison psychiatry in Sweden (Orsolya Hoffmann, Lennart Mossberg)
  • Prison psychiatry in Switzerland (Marc Graf)
  • Current ethical challenges in prison psychiatry in England & Wales (Adarsh Kaul, Birgit Vl̲lm)
  • Application of the AMA Code of Medical Ethics to Psychiatric Practice in Correctional Facilities and Access to Psychiatric Care in the U.S.A. (Alan R. Felthous)
  • Conclusion (Norbert Konrad, Birgit Vl̲lm and David Weisstub).

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