This book explores the ways in which diversity and experiences of marginalisation are present in forensic mental health care settings around the globe and suggests ways of moving forward.
Forensic mental health services provide care for a group of patients who are marginalised in several respects. Many have experienced childhood adversity and abuse, substance use, serious and chronic mental disorders, poor healthcare education or treatment, inadequate educational opportunities, social isolation, and pervasive forms of stigmatization. On top of these individual experiences of marginalisation, wide diversity exists across patients’ socio-demographic, cultural, and clinical characteristics. Chapters in this book discuss these crucial and often sensitive problems, such as working with transgender prisoners, the impact of incarceration for children from non-white backgrounds, cultural and linguistic diversity in forensic settings, and more.
Combining global perspectives, current evidence and case studies, this book will be of interest to patients, carers, practitioners, researchers, and students of forensic mental health.
Table of Contents:
Foreword by Professor Harry Kennedy
Part One: Introduction
1. Marginalisation and Diversity in Forensic Mental Health Care: An introduction
Dr Jack Tomlin
Prof Birgit Völlm
2. The United States Criminal Justice System: The Experience of Racially Marginalized People
Dr Brittany Wells
Dr Antoinette Kavanaugh
Part Two: Marginalised and Diverse Social Characteristics
3. Intersectional Inequalities and Women in Secure Settings
Dr Jayne Taylor
Professor Tammi Walker
4. Transitional Spaces: Working with Transgender Prisoners in the United Kingdom
Jessica Collier
Dr Rebecca Lockwood
Dr Frances Maclennan
5. Children in Custody: Exploring the Impact of Incarceration for Children and Their Families in the Context of Wider Marginalization and Oppression
Dr Celia Sadie
Dr Clare Holt
Andrez Harriott
Sophie D’Souza
Javel Watt
6. Foreign Nationals in Forensic Care: A German Perspective
Prof. Thomas Ross
Dr María Isabel Fontao
Dr Annette Opitz-Welke
Dr Jan Bulla
7. Fathers in Forensic Mental Health Services
Dr Sara Morgan
Dr Leigh Gale
Dr Christopher Hartwright
Dr Michelle Wells
Part Three: Marginalised and Diverse Clinical Characteristics
8. Autism in Forensic Settings
Emma Longfellow
Julia Skelding
9. Learning Disability and Forensic Mental Health
Julia Skelding
Emma Longfellow
10. The problematic nature of transitions amongst adolescents with multiple and complex needs in secure care: An overview of institutional transitions
Dr Maria Livanou
Dr Vivek Furtado
11. "Long-Stay" Patients in Forensic Mental Health
Prof. Birgit Völlm
Part Four: Developing Responsive Interventions and Models of Care
12. A Tripartite Model of Cultural, Clinical and Operational Governance in the Planning and Delivery of Culturally Informed Care for Indigenous Māori Forensic Mental Health Service Users
Dr James Cavney
13. The Elders Project: Bringing Black African-Caribbean Collectivism in From the Outside
Beresford Dawkins
Dawn M Sutherland
Dr Kimberly Sham Ku
Patrick Bennett
Dr Abdullah Mia
14. Working in Multicultural Forensic Settings: An Integrated Model of Assessment
Dr Stephane M Shepherd
Dr Mary O. Madu
Part Five: Communicating with Marginalised Groups
15. The Individual as a Marginalised Cohort in Secure and Forensic Mental Health Inpatient Settings in the UK
Dr Sarah Markham
16. Including Older Forensic Service Users in Research
Dr Renske Visser
Dr Janet Parrott
Dr Fiona Houben
Prof. Douglas MacInnes
17. Men in ‘Limbo’: Masculinities in Medium Secure Care in Scotland
Dr Christine Haddow
18. Carers and Forensic Services: Towards Carers Peer Support
Karen Machin
Shelagh Musgrave
Karen Persaud
Dr Julie Ridley
Part Six: Conclusion
19. Conclusion: Pulling towards justice
Dr Jack Tomlin
Prof. Birgit Völlm
About the Author :
Jack Tomlin is Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Greenwich, United Kingdom. He has studied, taught, and researched crime and mental health in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Germany.
Birgit Völlm is Professor of Forensic Psychiatry and Director of the Hospital of Forensic Psychiatry at Rostock University Medical Center. She is also Chair of the Forensic Section of the World Psychiatric Association.
Review :
"This collection is eye-opening, accessible and pioneering. An invaluable toolkit for anybody interested in criminal justice and mental health."
David Lammy, MP; Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in the United Kingdom
"Justice is a key concept in medical ethics, with respect for justice identified as one of four principles of bioethics. This timely book provides a welcome review of how systemic injustices can affect patients and staff in forensic services. The editors have brought together a range of rich and thoughtful chapters which should make forensic practitioners question themselves about whether their services always act justly; and how forensic services can be more respectful of diversity and justice."
Dr Gwen Adshead, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist at Broadmoor Hospital, UK
"An intellectual entertainment was defined by Lord Reith as educating, informing and entertaining. Science and medicine do not fare well as entertainments, but entertainment and literary criticism do not fare well as nostrums for life shortening illnesses. In this book, Tomlin and Völlm give fair and equal hearings to both. The reader will benefit from the choice."
Prof. Harry Kennedy, Clinical Professor of Forensic Psychiatry and Executive Clinical Director National Forensic Mental Health Service in Ireland
