Mental Disorder and the Law: A Primer for Legal and Mental Health Professionals

Canada's criminal courts have struggled to deal effectively with the increase in mentally disordered accused. In 2017, we mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the proclamation of Bill C-30, which introduced landmark amendments to the Criminal Code as it pertains to mentally disordered accused. Since then, certain provinces have implemented mental health courts and "diversion" programs in an effort to connect the mentally disordered accused with the civil mental health care systems. Following the overwhelming success of its first edition, this book further examines the logical and temporal sequence of the issues a mentally disordered accused is likely to encounter from arrest to sentencing. This new edition of Mental Disorder and the Law aims to provide a succinct overview of the key topics that judges, Crown and defence counsel, and mental health providers face in their day-to-day work with mentally disordered offenders.

Author: Hy Bloom, Richard D. Schneider
Publisher: Irwin Law
Published: 09/08/2017
Pages: 424
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781552214640

About the Author
Schneider, Richard D.: - The Honourable Richard D. Schneider is a justice of the Ontario Court of Justice, where he presides at Toronto's Mental Health Court, and alternate chair of the Ontario and Nunavut Review Boards. He is also an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Toronto, and an adjunct lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. Prior to his appointment to the bench, Justice Schneider was a criminal defence lawyer, a clinical psychologist, and counsel to the Ontario Review Board. He was recently appointed honorary president of the Canadian Psychological Association. He has published extensively in the area of mental disorder and the law.Bloom, Hy: - Hy Bloom, LLB, MD, FRCP(C) is a forensic psychiatrist and lawyer who assesses individuals who have mental illnesses and outstanding criminal charges. He is a founding member of the PSILEX Group, Consultants in Behavioural Sciences and the Law. He is also a part-time staff member in the Complex Mental Illness/Forensic Services Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University, and adjunct faculty at University of Toronto's Faculty of Law. Dr Bloom has published on a number of topics in psychiatry and the law.