Ethical Issues in Prison Psychiatry

Recent surveys demonstrate a high and possibly increasing prevalence of mental disorders in prisoners. They have an increased risk of suffering from a mental disorder that transcends countries and diagnoses. Ethical dilemmas in prison psychiatry arise fro

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Norbert Konrad Birgit Völlm David N. Weisstub Editors

Ethical Issues in Prison Psychiatry

Ethical Issues in Prison Psychiatry

INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF ETHICS, LAW, AND THE NEW MEDICINE Founding Editors DAVID C. THOMASMA† DAVID N. WEISSTUB, Université de Montréal, Canada THOMASINE KIMBROUGH KUSHNER, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.

Editor DAVID N. WEISSTUB, Université de Montréal, Canada

Editorial Board TERRY CARNEY, University of Sydney, Australia MARCUS DÜWELL, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands SØREN HOLM, University of Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom GERRIT K. KIMSMA, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands DAVID NOVAK, University of Toronto, Canada EDMUND D. PELLEGRINO, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., U.S.A. DOM RENZO PEGORARO, Fondazione Lanza and University of Padua, Italy DANIEL P. SULMASY, Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers, New York, U.S.A. LAWRENCE TANCREDI, New York University, New York, U.S.A.

VOLUME 46 For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/6224

Norbert Konrad • Birgit Völlm David N. Weisstub Editors

Ethical Issues in Prison Psychiatry

Editors Norbert Konrad Institute of Forensic Psychiatry, Charité University Medicine Berlin Berlin, Germany David N. Weisstub The International Academy of Law and Mental Health Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal Montreal, QC, Canada

Birgit Völlm Section of Forensic Psychiatry Division of Psychiatry University of Nottingham Nottingham, UK Rampton Hospital, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Woodbeck

ISSN 1567-8008 ISBN 978-94-007-0085-7 ISBN 978-94-007-0086-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-0086-4 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London Library of Congress Control Number: 2013944680 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such n