TY - BOOK ID - 85492335 TI - Mental health homicide and society : understanding health care governance PY - 2019 SN - 1509912169 1509912150 1509912134 1509912142 9781509912148 9781509912131 9781509912155 9781509912162 PB - Oxford: Hart, DB - UniCat KW - Mentally ill offenders KW - Homicide KW - Insanity (Law) KW - Murderers KW - Law KW - Medical Law and Ethics KW - Socio-Legal Studies KW - Social aspects KW - Mental health KW - Luhmann, Niklas, KW - Influence. KW - Homicide offenders KW - Killers (Murderers) KW - Murder offenders KW - Criminals KW - Criminal insanity KW - Insanity KW - Insanity (Jurisprudence) KW - Lunacy (Law) KW - Mental illness KW - Mentally ill KW - Capacity and disability KW - Insanity defense KW - Femicide KW - Offenses against the person KW - Violent deaths KW - Law and legislation KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Murderers - Mental health - Great Britain KW - Mentally ill offenders - Great Britain KW - Homicide - Great Britain KW - Insanity (Law) - Social aspects - Great Britain KW - Luhmann, Niklas, - 1927-1998 - Influence KW - Luhmann, Niklas, - 1927-1998 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85492335 AB - "A homicide perpetrated by a mentally-disordered person under the care of health services is a shocking event. Otherwise known as a 'patient homicide', these events attract investigatory responses that are widely understood to be episodes of procedure that seek the truth about what happened and promote the learning of lessons. This monograph however incorporates systems theory into its novel theoretical design and argues that these events are communicated about within closed systems of life (eg, law, medicine). These systems operate through unique internal logics. Yet, they resonate in society and enable a contingent and chaotic space of governance to emerge in which universal understandings about patient homicides and the realisation of pre-defined goals to minimise their occurrence is unachievable.The book is timely because the Scottish Government initiated a process of reforming their patient homicide investigation procedures in 2017. In England more recently, plans to reform patient homicide investigations are slowly germinating. Original and compelling, the book concludes that policy makers should re-evaluate their normative commitments to improve public safety and health service quality in a world of disharmony, objection, and resistance"-- ER -