Law Without Enforcement

Nigel Eastman is in the Department of Psychiatry at St. George's Hospital Medical School. Jill Peay is a Reader in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

• Law without enforcement - theory and practice, Nigel Eastman and Jill Peay; mental health law - objectives and principles, William Bingley and Chris Heginbotham; mental and physical illness - an unsustainable separation?, Eric Matthews; public policy via law - practitioner's sword and politician's shield, Chris Heginbotham and Tony Elson; client and clinician - law as an intrusion - Fiona Caldicott, Edna Conlan and Anthony Zigmond; law as a clinical tool, Ian Bynoe and Tony Holland; law as a rights protector - assessing the Mental Health Act 1983, Genevra Richardson and Oliver Thorold; the citizen mental patient, Peter Barham and Marian Barnes; auditing the effectiveness of mental health law, Nick Bosanquet; madness and moral panics, Geoffrey Pearson; decision making and mental health law, Annie Bartlett and Lawrence Phillips; researching law, Bram Oppenheim; afterword - integrating mental health and justice, Nigel Eastman and Jill Peay; case list.

...a must for anyone working in mental health care.The book is a detailed examination of the issues which the current review of mental health legislation ought to address.the contributors put together a convincing argument for new legislation that would root out the contradictions and conflicts and halt the damaging conflation between mental illness and violence towards others. Catherine Jackson Mental Health Care September 2002 The book is brimming over with reflections, ideas and proposals, some (inevitably) easier to follow than othersit is the combined efforts of all the contributors that makes this book so worthy of priority reading. John Horne Journal of Mental Health Law September 2002 For those interested in mental health law this book is manna from heaven. Philip T Bean Howard Journal of Criminal Justice September 2002 I recommend that Government ministers read it and reconsider. Simon Foster OpenMind September 2002 ..The overall impression formed by this book, for someone who has tried to keep up to date with developing ideas, is of a dam busting.It produces a series of insights which are thought-provoking at worst and revelatory at best.Those who wish to understand better the intellectual background from which the scooping committee is working should read this book. Alan Parkin Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law September 2002