Centre for the Advancement of Law and Mental Health

Based in the Faculty of Law at Monash University's Clayton Campus, this Centre draws upon existing links with the Faculty of Medicine as well as the expertise of consumers, carers and mental health professionals in conducting research into the advancement of laws and policy relating to mental health issues.

It reflects Monash University's commitment to social justice and human rights through excellence in research and scholarship.

Latest publications

Dangerous People: Policy, Prediction and Practice (2011) edited by Bernadette McSherry and Patrick Keyzer (New York: Routledge)

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Mental health issues in the news

• Police to revamp training for handling mentally ill
• Imprisonment can do a grave injustice to the intellectually impaired
• Another way of thinking
• Deaths in mental health facilities: unexpected, unnatural and violent
• Mentally ill face injustice: judge

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