Mental Condition in Criminal Law: Forensic Psychiatric and Psychological Assessment in a Residential Setting - Softcover

In the Netherlands the vast majority of forensic mental health assessment on an in-patient basis is carried out at the Pieter Baan Centre, Utrecht, which has the legal status of a house of detention and observation centre. Suspects of serious offences are observed and assessed intensively for a period of seven weeks by a multidisciplinary team of experts. Not only has the enshrinement of forensic mental health diagnosis in the law led to the accentuation of an individualistic type of diagnosis but also makes it important for the expert to consider his position in the justice system. The various parts of the forensic mental health assessment are described in this volume as well as the legal enshrinement of the assessment, an international comparison of Dutch criminal law, the history of the hospital and a survey of relevant research. The Pieter Baan Centre has existed almost sixty years. Based on an extensive clinical experience, the authors offer an account of the way in which this hospital provides for forensic mental health reporting.

F. Koenraadt, is a forensic psychologist, health care psychologist and criminologist, associate professor in forensic psychiatry and psychology at the Willem Pompe Institute of Utrecht University; forensic psychologist at the NIFP, Pieter Baan Centre; and has a private practice for forensic psychology. J.M.L. van Mulbregt, is a lawyer, head of the legal department of the NIFP, Pieter Baan Centre.A.W.M. Mooy, psychiatrist, professor of forensic psychiatry at the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology; honorary professor at the Department of Philosophy at Utrecht University; and he formerly worked at the Pieter Baan Centre.