Browse Hierarchy ICM7256: Forensic Medicine, Public Health and Adolescence

This is a compulsory module which will provide the student with additional knowledge to consolidate and contextualise the learning of the prior six modules. We will provide a grounding in the key public health principles relating to care and custody. Some time will be devoted to exploring the challenges of preventing adolescents from descending into gangs and delinquency and their needs should they be taken into care and custody. An overview of the modes of physical restraint to include less-lethal weapons will be presented. We will review the morbidity and mortality of less-lethal weapons and systems used by security, police, prison, healthcare, the military and other bodies and organisations. The module will describe the nature of healthcare assessment and monitoring of those subject to such restraint and control. The module will thus bring together aspects of public health related to crime and violence, means of addressing and assessing violent individuals safely, and the risks associated with the relevant control techniques and systems.