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Compensation and the criminal justice system

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Abstract

A patient runs amok in a hospital or a general practitioner’s surgery, he attacks a nurse and some other patients, causing each of them serious personal harm. While, in practice, such incidents are relatively rare (verbal abuse and threats being more common) our concern in this chapter is with what the law has to say on such questions as to whether the patient should be prosecuted and whether the victims can obtain compensation from him or some other source. What if the patient was known by the hospital management or his GP to have violent propensities or suffers from a mental disorder; how do these facts affect the picture?

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  1. David Miers
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  1. Department of Psychology Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London, UK

    Til Wykes

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Miers, D., Shapland, J. (1994). Compensation and the criminal justice system. In: Wykes, T. (eds) Violence and Health Care Professionals. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2863-4_8

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