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Editorial AUST. & N.Z. JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (Mar., 1973): 6, 1 The Right to Treatment TODAY psychiatry and psychiatric treatment are playing a considerable part in sentencing and they show signs of playing an ever-increasing role. Clearly the time is coming when some stock-taking and evaluation is most necessary in order that the various claims being made by psychiatrists and psychotherapists may be supported or refuted, as also the claims of others that the advent of the 'psychiatric era' correlates in a causal sense with penological liberalism and 'softness' and an increase in the crime rate. One aspect of this matter has been touched upon in an article in this Journau». It is almost certainly true that psychiatry in Australia and New Zealand has not been used in the criminal process in the manner it appears to have been used in some cases in the United States of America; for example, Rouseu: concerned with insanity and Millard(3) in relation to sexual psychopathy. Nevertheless, it is probably worthwhile looking at some recent commentary stemming from the United States as there may well be cause for us to pause and take a look at our own practices and the direction in which http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

Editorial

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology , Volume 6 (1): 5 – Mar 1, 1973
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AUST. & N.Z. JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (Mar., 1973): 6, 1 The Right to Treatment TODAY psychiatry and psychiatric treatment are playing a considerable part in sentencing and they show signs of playing an ever-increasing role. Clearly the time is coming when some stock-taking and evaluation is most necessary in order that the various claims being made by psychiatrists and psychotherapists may be supported or refuted, as also the claims of others that the advent of the 'psychiatric era' correlates in a causal sense with penological liberalism and 'softness' and an increase in the crime rate. One aspect of this matter has been touched upon in an article in this Journau». It is almost certainly true that psychiatry in Australia and New Zealand has not been used in the criminal process in the manner it appears to have been used in some cases in the United States of America; for example, Rouseu: concerned with insanity and Millard(3) in relation to sexual psychopathy. Nevertheless, it is probably worthwhile looking at some recent commentary stemming from the United States as there may well be cause for us to pause and take a look at our own practices and the direction in which

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Published: Mar 1, 1973

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