Abstract
Dr Humphreys is right to emphasise that the majority of offenders with mental disorder have not committed serious offences (conversely, a number of general psychiatric patients are admitted to hospital after incidents in the community which, in different circumstances, might have attracted official attention) and that the principles of treatment and management are the same as for patients in general psychiatry. However, psychiatric assessment of more serious offending does call for careful consideration of additional issues, such as ‘psychiatric defences’ to criminal charges (including fitness to plead, insanity, automatisms, and in cases of charges of murder, diminished responsibility) and the role of security in their management.
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