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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Criminology

191-324/424 Advanced Psychiatry and Law

Credit Points:

16.7 3rd and 4th year

Coordinator:

Ms D Greig

Prerequisite/s:

Successful completion of 191-313/413 Psychiatry and Law.

Timetable:

Semester 2

Contact:

A 1-hour lecture; 2-hour seminar and no more than 26 hours of visits and interviews

Subject Description:

The course involves a critical appraisal of the medical and legal profession with special reference to the writings of Michael Foucault, Stanley Cohen and Nikolas Rose in relation to the place of psychiatry in modern society. Particular attention will be given to an analysis of psychiatry's knowledge base and its utility for the courts and public policy. The response of the various arms of the criminal justice system to the needs of the mentally ill and intellectually disabled will be a dominant theme and include aspects of gender and ethnicity.

Assessment:

Up to 5000 words of written work at 3rd year level and 6000 words at 4th year level. An examination may be substituted for part of the written work.

Prescribed Texts:

  • Cohen, S, Visions of Social Control, Polity.
  • Foucault, M, Discipline and Punishment, Penguin.
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