
Published online:
31 October 2023
Published in print:
27 December 2007
Online ISBN:
9781383035100
Print ISBN:
9780199213481
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Chapter
7 Offences Involving the Mentally Disordered
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Pages
117–150
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Published:December 2007
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Laws, Eleanor, and Patricia Lees, 'Offences Involving the Mentally Disordered', The Sexual Offences Referencer: A Practitioner’s Guide to Indictments and Sentencing (Oxford , 2007; online edn, Oxford Academic, 31 Oct. 2023), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199213481.003.0007, accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This chapter deals principally with offences upon women. Mentally disordered males have in the past been provided with some protection (see paras 5.86 and 7.651), but not extensively so, until the SOA 2003 was passed.
The SOA 2003 consolidated the law and provided offences against both mentally disordered males and females.
Before the passing of the SOA 1956 (commencement date 1.1.1957) there were several statutes dealing with offences against the mentally disordered. In each there was a separate definition of individuals, currently described as mentally disordered. In the main, terms used are offensive to the modern reader.
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Sentencing and Punishment
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