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The ISTD opened a ‘Psychopathic Clinic’, the precursor of the Portman Clinic. Moss Side Special Hospital also opened.

Modern British criminology began with the founding of the Association for the Scientific Treatment of Criminals, before becoming the Institute for the Scientific Treatment of Delinquency (ISTD) in 1932.

Mental Health Act enacted the proposals of the 1926 Royal Commission.

Publication of Royal Commission Report on Lunacy and Mental Disorder – introduced possibility of voluntary admission to mental hospitals.

Arguably the first modern textbook of forensic psychiatry. He questions, for example, whether epilepsy causes violence.

Opening of Rampton Special Hospital.

The 19th Century in England and Wales saw the main legal foundations laid of societal recognition of the role of mental disorder in offending. A number of high-profile legal cases carried out by mentally disordered offenders were associated with Acts… Continue reading →

Act for Preserving the Health of Prisoners and Preventing the Gaol Distemper passed requiring all prisons to appoint the physician.

John Howards “The state of prisons” drew attention to the urgent need for improving sanitation and health care.

Opening of the Maudsley Hospital.