Mental health and the criminal justice system
/ J Osogo Ambani and Humphrey Sipalla [eds]
- Kabarak, Kenya : Kabarak University Press, 2023.
- xvi, 134 pages;
Chapter 1 - Introduction; Chapter 2 - 'Pariah, prisoner or patient?': A brief history of persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities in Kenya's criminal justice system; Chapter 3 - The evolution of the rights of persons with intellectual psychosocial disabilities in international human rights law; Chapter 4 - An overview of the legal and policy framework for the protection of persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities in Kenya; Chapter 5 - Between arrests and sentence : Treatment of persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities in Kenya's criminal justice system; Chapter 6 - Emerging judicial jurisprudence on mental health in Kenya's criminal justice system; Chapter 7 - Selected African judicial on mental health and the criminal justice system