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| Date | 01 October 1993 |
| Published date | 01 October 1993 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455059304000321 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
the Mental Health Foundation’s Mental
Illness: The Fundamental Facts (May
RESOURCES
1993) by Dr Dick Thompson brings
together essential information about the
nature, prevalence and cost of mental
illness in the United Kingdom. Did you
know that, of all people diagnosed as
mentally ill, 55 % are women and 45 %
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are men, yet men are over three times
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more likely to be referred for specialist
psychiatric help. However, women who
7he Safer Monsall Project (June 1993)
come before the criminal courts are
was Manchester City Council’s first
twice as likely to be sent for psychiatric
concerted neighbourhood-based
treatment as men, are seven times more
community safety initiative to inhibit
likely to be referred to maximum
crime and the fear of crime. Starting in
security hospitals and are twice as likely
late 1988, the report gives a blow-by-
to be sent to a special hospital from
blow account of the history and
prison. Less than 2 % of homeless
processes adopted in promoting
mentally ill people have been in
partnership development to regenerate an
psychiatric hospital for a year or more,
inner-city council estate. As
thus
a result, the
disproving the myth that a large
number
estate has been allocated £13.5 million
are ex-long stay patients. From
under the Estate Action initiative. From
MHF, 37 Mortimer Street, London WIN
Community Safety Team, Chief
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Executive’s Department, PO Box 532,
Town Hall, Manchester M60 2LA,
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New Approaches to Juvenile Crime, the
consortium of NAPO, ACOP, BASW,
Save the Children Fund and West
ADSS and NACRO, offers a Briefing
Yorkshire Probation Service present the
Paper, Creating More Criminals (June
fruits of their collaboration in Leeds over
1993) which puts the case against the
the past five years. The first section of
proposed new ’secure training order’ for
the Victim and Offender Mediation
12 to 15 year old juvenile...
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