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Male Admissions to Broadmoor Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Gavin Tennent ,
Kypros Loucas ,
George Fenton  and
Peter Fenwick
Gavin Tennent
Affiliation:
St. Brendan's Hospital, Bermuda (lately Director, Special Hospitals Research Unit, Camberwell, London)
Kypros Loucas
Affiliation:
Broadmoor Hospital, Crowthorne, Berkshire
George Fenton
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF
Peter Fenwick
Affiliation:
Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF
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Broadmoor Hospital is one of three Special Hospitals provided for the treatment of patients of ‘dangerous or violent propensities', under conditions of security. By definition, it caters for a unique and highly selected group of patients; patients who it is thought are too dangerous to be cared for in more conventional psychiatric facilities. Studies of such selected groups of patients may help us towards a better understanding of the relationship between dangerous behaviour and mental illness. Special groups of patients have been studied (Blackburn, 1970; Le Couteur, 1966; McGrath, 1958), but apart from a general paper by Gould (1957), and a recent research report by Black (1973) remarkably little is known either about the characteristics of those patients who go into hospitals, or about what happens to them after they leave the hospitals.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 125 , Issue 584 , July 1974 , pp. 44 - 50
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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