Doctoring With Conviction

Criminal Records and the Medical Profession

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8402883
AutoresJ M Chamberlain (0000-0001-6067-6561, Swansea University, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume58
Fascículo2
Páginas394-413
Data de publicação2018-02-15
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/bjc/azx016
OpenAlexW2591231379
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas46

The General Medical Council decides if, when they are convicted of a crime, a doctor in the United Kingdom should be allowed to continue in their employment. This article is the first to detail these decisions for the period 2005–15. No doctor was barred from practising medicine for serious violent and sex offences, including rape, possession of images of child sexual abuse, manslaughter and domestic violence. These findings are placed in the context of contemporary developments in criminal record reform and criminological analysis of the relationship between employment and desistance. It is concluded that the high degree of devolved discretion allowed to elite professional occupations must be subjected to further critical scrutiny and policy reform.

Confidentiality · Context (archaeology) · Conviction · Criminology · Discretion · Family medicine · Medical profession · Political science · Possession (linguistics) · Psychiatry · Scrutiny · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · History · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Torture, Ethics, and Law