Community Supervision Orders - 5th Report : Report Together with an Appendix and the Proceedings of the Committee

In early January 1993, the Council of the Royal College of Psychiatrists issued a report on proposals for a new Community Supervision Order (CSO), the purpose of which is to keep mentally ill people out of hospital as safely as possible.

This report seeks to judge whether the Royal College of Psychiatrists' proposal is the answer to the Secretary of State's question as to whether or not there is some better way between either total loss of freedom in an institution or being in the community.

The book considers what a CSO is, to whom it might apply, the implications of its application and also the wider ethical, moral, social, legal, practical and medical issues raised by the proposal.