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Therapy Versus Security: Reconciling Healing and Damnation

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Critical Perspectives in Forensic Care

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‘“The lunatics have taken over the asylum” blasted a top prison officer at Broadmoor’ was the explosive introduction to a national newspaper article (Daily Star, 17 December 1993), which was almost entirely replicated in the Today newspaper of the same date. The article went on to castigate the management of Broadmoor Hospital for the liberalisation of its hospital regime, where patients’ rights were not only perceived as having taken precedence over those of the staff but had actually created the conditions for a series of patient escapes and absconsions for which the nursing staff felt that they had to ‘bear the brunt of constant criticism’ when things went wrong.

He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone. (John, ch. 8, v. 7)

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Forensic Practice Development Centre, Ashworth Hospital, UK

    Dave Mercer RMN, BA (Hons), PGCE, MA (lecturer-practitioner, Course Director) (lecturer-practitioner, Course Director)

  2. Diploma in Forensic Care and Management, UK

    Dave Mercer RMN, BA (Hons), PGCE, MA (lecturer-practitioner, Course Director) (lecturer-practitioner, Course Director)

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Burrow, S. (1998). Therapy Versus Security: Reconciling Healing and Damnation. In: Mason, T., Mercer, D. (eds) Critical Perspectives in Forensic Care. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26104-8_11

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