Report of the Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders.
- Great Britain. Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders
- Date:
- 1975
Licence: Open Government Licence
Credit: Report of the Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Mental handicap Mental Health Act Mental Health Review Tribunal Mental illness Mental welfare officers M’Naghten Rules Model Penal Code (American Law Institute) NHS Personality disorder Place of safety Psychiatric probation order Psychopathic disorder Regional Health Authorities Regional Hospital Boards Regional secure [hospital] units Restriction order Restricted patient Royal Commission of 1954-57 Royal Commission on Capital Punishment Severe mental illness | Mental retardation: subnormality or severe subnormality. Mental Health Act 1959. See paragraph 7.4. Not defined in the Mental Health Act but refers to a disorder which has not always existed in the patient but has developed as a condition overlying the sufferer’s usual personality. See paragraph 9.1 (footnote). See paragraph 18.4. See paragraph 18.14. National Health Service. See paragraph 5.17. As defined in the Mental Health Act: see paragraph 9.1. In connection with our proposals for emergency recall of condition- dally discharged patients, see paragraph 14.31. See paragraph 16.1, and Chapter 16 generally. See paragraph 1.13(c). See paragraph 2.3 (footnote). See paragraphs 1.3-1.4. Order under section 65 of the Mental Health Act reserving to the Home Secretary certain powers in connection with patients detained under hospital orders: see paragraphs 2.31- es Patient subject to a restriction order. Royal Commission on the Law Relating to Mental Illness and Mental Deficiency, 1954-57 (Cmnd, 169). Royal Commission on Capital Punishment, 1949-53 (Cmnd. 8932). As defined in connection with our special verdict proposals, see paragraph 18.35.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32220224_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
