No One Knows: The bewildering passage of offenders with learning disability and learning difficulty through the criminal justice system

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-7

  Jones, Glyn ^a   Talbot, Jenny ^b  

^a ABERTAWE BRO MORGANNWG UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARD   (United Kingdom)

^b Prison Reform Trust's Transforming Lives programme   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COURT; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; CRIMINAL LAW; DECISION MAKING; EDITORIAL; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LEARNING DISORDER; OFFENDER; PRISON; SOCIAL WORK;

CRIMINAL LAW; CRIMINALS; CRIMINOLOGY; DISABLED PERSONS; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 76149111588     PISSN: 09579664     EISSN: 14712857     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cbm.746     Document Type: Editorial

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