What is the relationship between someone’s behaviour and any medical condition they may have? To what extent is anti-social and / or criminal conduct caused by or correlated to any mental distress or illness they are suffering? And having just distinguished between the idea that some people in mental distress may or may not be […]

This post is one I have been reluctant to write – Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards are seen as somewhat complicated and potentially difficult to understand and issues for the police arising from DoLS have been queried with me only very, very rarely indeed.  I did offer a few thoughts on them last year, but isolated to the specific […]

When is it acceptable to criminalise a child who is already detained under the Mental Health Act within our secure mental health system? I asked this question on Twitter and it did amaze me, quite frankly, that I didn’t get a single reply saying ‘never’.  It surprises me that no-one thought that – but that’s […]