With a highly succinct, bullet point style, this book focuses on the key facts and practical day to day issues vital to forensic psychiatry whether for quick clinical reference or for fact-oriented exam preparation.

The Development of Forensic Psychiatric Services. Entry into Secure Care. Treatment and Outcomes in Secure Care. Challenging Issues in Secure Care. Leaving Secure Care and Community Follow-up. Risk of Violence Assessment. Psychosis and Offending. Mood Disorders, Neuroses and Offending. Personality Disorders and Offending. Learning Disability, Autistic Spectrum Disorders and Offending. Women in Secure Care. Children and Adolescents in Secure Care. Sex Offenders, Stalkers and Fire Setters. Crime and Criminology. The Criminal Law and Sentencing. Psychiatry and the Police. Psychiatry and the Criminal Justice System. Prisons and Prisoners. Mental Health Care in Prisons. Psychiatric Issues in Criminal Courts. Providing Expert Evidence to Criminal Courts.

" … easy to read, with the different subject matters clearly set out. The authors have appropriately used text boxes to provide practical information and the use of tables to present information is very helpful to the reader. … Overall I found this book to be a well structured concise, practical guide to forensic psychiatry."— Rebecca O'Donovan, East Midlands Forensic Psychiatry Training