Abstract
These proceedings discuss the major problems faced by courts and criminal justice practitioners in dealing with serious violent offenders who have personality disorders. Topics covered include: predicting dangerous behaviour; balancing the offender's rights against the need for community protection; inadequacies in the system; the treatment of violent offenders in prison; the principles of sentencing; and the process of review prior to release.
Proceedings of a conference held 29-31 October 1991
Contents
- Personality disorder, the criminal justice system and the mental health system
David Neal - Coping with the highly dangerous: issues of principle raised by preventive detention
Professor C. R. Williams - Provisions for violent offenders: perpetuating myths or confronting challenges
Margaret Ray MLA and Leanne Craze - 'Dangerous persons': to be gaoled for what they are, or what they may do, not for what they have done
Ron Merkel QC - The politics of dangerousness
Deidre Greig - Can the Victorian Parliament abolish fundamental rights?
Bryan Keon-Cohen - Indeterminate sentences and dangerousness
Ian Campbell - The principles of sentencing violent offenders: towards a more structured approach
Ivan Potas - The case for due process in reviewable sentences
Peter Svensson - Community safety and serious violent offenders
Judge Paul Mullaly - Managing violent offenders in the correctional setting a coordinated approach
Peter Harmsworth - Managing serious violent offenders in South Australian prisons: control, consensus or responsibility
John Dawes - Independent and intimate: the Serious Offenders' Review Board, New South Wales
Graham Egan - Canberra's first forensic institute for rehabilitation services and training
Hugh Veness - A relapse prevention approach to reducing aggressive behaviour
Peter Prisgrove - Psychiatric treatment of violent offenders in prison
Fredrick Stamp - A profile of forensic patients in New South Wales and an assessment of the role of the Mental Health Review Tribunal in effecting their release
Robert Hayes, Michael Sterry, Tony Ovadia, Bernard Boerma and William Greer - Review for release: the use and misuse of psychiatric opinion
William E. Lucas - Assessing the dangerousness and treatability of sex offenders in the community
Dr William Glaser - The release of serious violent offenders and community safety
Don Thomson, Astrid Birgden and Marlene Morison