Diversity and Marginalisation in Forensic Mental Health Care

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 Voellm 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