This book explores the risks of adults with a mental disorder and how the relative Scottish legislative frameworks interrelate to provide them with support and protection. Seeking, primarily, to... More > explore the practical application of duties and powers across the interface of these Acts, this work explores their links and relationships, their thresholds, where duties may have to be met across one or two of the Acts, or indeed the three Acts.< Less
This work explores the care and support of adults at risk with mental disorder in Scotland and how the key statutory agencies and practitioners work collectively, to manage care and risk, and to... More > provide such individuals with support and protection.< Less
The work is about adults (16 and over) affected by mental disorder, the definition, which is taken from 2003 mental health Act), which includes mental illness, learning disability and personality... More > disorder. In particular it concerns those adults who may be at risk to their health, welfare, safety, finance and property, and to the finding of an adequate response to this range of risk in the context of local adult protection frameworks and contemporary Scottish legislative frameworks. The work also explores how relative risk management systems operate to provide those adults with support and protection.< Less
This work takes a novel and inventive approach to the application of these Acts, focusing on their provision in a collective way as if they might exist in one Act, i.e. a ‘One Act’... More > approach, consolidating their powers and provisions to sup[port and protect adults at risk with mental disorder in Scotland. The work explores the practical application of duties and powers across the interface of these Acts, their links and relationships, their thresholds, and their collective application.< Less
To Understand WHY is about a serial killer and a forensic profiler. Oh no, not another one! Oh no, not another serial killer? Yes, but this one is different, he kills by proxy. Oh no, not another... More > forensic profiler? Yes, but this one is an old, burned-out, failed one, who gets one more chance. And To Understand WHY, is not just a ‘who dunnit’ it is a ‘why dunnit’, where, our hero, seeks to find out not only who is behind a series of heinous murders in Glasgow, but why this person is doing this. But can he still cut the mustard? He has crashed and can he come back in this his greatest challenge; in not only in his career, but his life?< Less
To Understand WHY is about a serial killer and a forensic profiler. Not another serial killer, not another forensic profiler! Indeed, but these ones are different, one kills by proxy and the other is... More > an old, burned-out, failure, who gets one more chance. Conflict drives both the novel and the main characters, where each has double bind circumstances which underpin the plot and defines them. Like duelling banjos, each influencing and challenging the other, and morphing them and the direction of the novel as a result. Add a corrupt Mayor, a Chief Detective Inspector with an unhealthy ambition, and interracial crime factions, and you have a novel set in local crime politics in the gritty backdrop of New York.< Less
