ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the nature of the service development to capture clients and how this is achieved. The idea of forensic psychiatry as a mode or public hygiene has been advanced through discussion of the escalating growth in service provision for mentally disordered offenders. Legislation exists to forcefully remove them and ensure that they receive treatment in a hospital for infectious diseases. This principle holds true for the mentally disordered offender in our midst who may be considered a risk to others and be forcefully removed to a secure unit via the legitimation of the Mental Health Act. The crucial point is that the dangerousness caused by the offender's condition is similar to the dangerousness caused by the infectious person's contagion. Through the treatment of the offender, medical power has infiltrated the societal body of the community. The market economy of contemporary health care, the forensic patient emerges as a reluctant consumer and a dubious product.
