Broadmoor Hospital is one of three “High Secure” or “Special” hospitals for mentally disordered offenders in England and Wales, being the first and arguably the most high profile. Rampton Hospital, in Nottinghamshire, was opened in 1912 as “Broadmoor Branch” to… Continue reading
Dundrum special hospital opened in Dublin.
Daniel M’Naughten attempted to assassinate the Prime Minister Robert Peel. He attempted to shoot both the Prime Minister and his Private Secretary, Edward Drummond. He was stopped before he could kill Robert Peel. He believed that he was being persecuted… Continue reading
Fitness to Plead and Stand Trial. The defendant was deaf, without speech and was learning disabled, being unable to understand and participate in the legal process; the Judge ruled in this case that he could not and this formed the… Continue reading
The Gaol Act established the Prison Health service.
John Haslam publishes ‘Medical Jurisprudence as it relates to Insanity’, which discussed matters such as the boundary line between crime and sanity, the role of delusions and murder, and the nature of an unsound mind.
Bethlem Hospital opens Criminal Lunatics Wing. Bethlem was founded in 1247 and is the oldest mental hospital in Europe. When it moved to St. George’s Fields in 1815 the government paid for a special criminal lunatics wing to house James… Continue reading
County Asylum Act provided for a ‘modern asylum in every country of England and Wales’.
James Hadfield believed that he should die to save the world. Consequently, he attempted to assassinate King George III at the Drury Lane Theatre. His previously good character was recognised, as was the likely physical precursor to his mental ill… Continue reading
This charity is concerned with the academic aspects of forensic psychiatry which are endangered by a lack of government and university support. No specialty of medicine can flourish without conducting fundamental research and providing education to the next generation of… Continue reading