ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts of key concepts discussed in preceding chapters of this book. The book argues mentally disordered offender, as an area of study, emerged following the convergence of a number of factors. These factors included the death of deviance caused by a loss of faith in difference and rationality, the move to deinstitutionalisation and the expansion of the community care programme, and the growth in interim and medium secure units. At this inchoate stage of development the contemporary pioneers staked a claim for the efficacy of psychiatric principles to control and govern the aberrancy of criminal conduct. The book reviews the decade to set the scene for a signpost to future for forensic psychiatry and the services for the mentally disordered offender. The shrinking time and space of contemporary living with its concomitant shifts in world economies, political parties, technological advances, and human global relations have converged to influence thinking in philosophy, science, and politics.
