NCJ Number
158730
Date Published
1990
Length
43 pages
Annotation
This study examined the extent to which Black people in Great Britain are remanded for psychiatric reports when appearing at magistrates' courts, and the outcome of these psychiatric remands.
Abstract
The report described the psychiatric remand process in magistrates' courts, presents several case histories of psychiatric remand, and provides an overview of the interrelationships between blacks, psychiatry, and the British criminal justice system. Other sections describe characteristics of the sample used here, and the role of magistrates, probation officers, court clerks, defense attorneys, and psychiatrists in the psychiatric remand process. The study presents recommendations for improving the response of the criminal justice system to black mentally ill offenders, with a particular focus on antidiscrimination policies, monitoring, liaison and coordination, reports and assessment, training, and community-based resources. 14 tables, 1 figure, 2 appendixes, and 27 references