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Mentally Abnormal Offenders Abroad

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2025

Richard Neville
Richard Neville*
Affiliation:
Park Lane Special Hospital, Maghili, Liverpool
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* Official address from July 1974: Park Lane Hospital Advance Unit, Moss Side Hospital, School Lane, Maghull, Liverpool L31 1BD.
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A glimpse is given of a DHSS sponsored six weeks tour of psychiatric facilities in North America and a WHO Fellowship for a month in Scandinavia to study the institutional management of mentally abnormal offenders. The 33 places visited (Canada 3, U.S.A. 8, Denmark 10, Norway 8, Sweden 4) included prisons, psychiatric hospitals, health service and WHO headquarters, and university departments of forensic psychiatry and criminology.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 124 , Issue S582 , May 1974 , pp. 12 - 14
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974

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