Prevalence of the hospitalisation of mentally ill offenders in the Forensic Unit of the Clinic of Psychiatry in Pristina over a three-year period and long-term strategy implications for the management of the Forensic Mental Health System Service

2014 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazmie F Ibishi ◽  
Nebi R Musliu ◽  
Zylfije Hundozi ◽  
Kaltrina Citaku
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health System ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Mental Health System ◽  
Mentally Ill Offenders ◽  
Forensic Mental Health ◽  
System Service

scholarly journals Alberta not criminally responsible project: Rates of persons found NCRMD and absolute discharges in Alberta following the Not Criminally Responsible Reform Act

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 121-126
Author(s):  
Andrew M. Haag ◽  
Katelyn Wonsiak ◽  
David Tyler Dunford
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Health System ◽  
Mental Health System ◽  
Mentally Ill Offenders ◽  
Forensic Mental Health ◽  
The Public ◽  
Forensic Hospital ◽  
Not Criminally Responsible ◽  
The Impact

In 2014, then-Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper passed the Not Criminally Responsible Reform Act into law, which gave Canadian courts and Review Boards new powers to protect the public from particularly dangerous mentally ill offenders. The most controversial change to the law included the designation of the High-Risk Accused. Once designated by the courts as a High-Risk Accused, that individual is barred from leaving a forensic hospital except for urgent medical reasons. In this article, the authors assess the impact of the Not Criminally Responsible Reform Act on the forensic mental health system in Alberta, Canada. The findings indicate that the legislation did not lead to any meaningful changes in the Alberta forensic mental health system in terms of absolute discharges and incoming persons found not criminally responsible.

Ethics and the forensic mental health system in Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 74-86
Author(s):  
Oladipo Adeolu Sowunmi ◽  
Omokehinde Olubunmi Fakorede ◽  
Adegboyega Ogunwale
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health System ◽  
Mental Health System ◽  
Forensic Mental Health

Mental commitments: The judicial function—a case perspective

1995 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-153
Author(s):  
Arthur B. Lafrance
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health System ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Mental Health System ◽  
Community Resources

Professor LaFranee served as a circuit judge pro tempore in a number of mental commitment proceedings in Oregon. He then observed several days of proceedings in Maine, for comparison purposes. Here he summarizes many of the Oregon and Maine cases, changing names of respondents, witnesses and attorneys for privacy purposes. This narrative enriches existing literature, which rarely reflects a judge's perspective on mental health. Professor LaFrance's conclusions are important—that a judge is, unfortunately, isolated from other agencies in the mental health system, that resources and personnel are inadequate, that the availability of community resources is important not only in serving the mentally ill but in defining them, and—finally—that existing definitions are overly broad.

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