This book examines shared intuitive notions of justice among laypersons and compares the discovered principles to those instantiated in American criminal codes. It reports eighteen original studies on a wide range of issues that are central to criminal law formulation.
Dr Robinson has specialized in Eating Disorders Psychiatry for some 25 years, working at the Maudsley, at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, the Gordon Hospital, the Royal Free and most recently at St Ann’s and the Russell Unit. He promoted the idea of intensive community treatment for eating disorders to minimize the need for hospital care and in 2009 published a book on Severe and Enduring Eating Disorders (SEED). He is a family therapist and his clinical approach is informed by family therapy and attachment theory and the encouragement of autonomy. His research has been in the role of the stomach in hunger and satiety in eating disorders, the use of email in the treatment of bulimia and, most recently, his interest has been in the use of Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT) in the treatment of eating disorders complicated by symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder (www.nourished-project.co.uk). He is a founder member of what is now the Eating Disorders Section of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and has been the author of two College Reports on Eating Disorder Services, a guidance document on the management of anorexia nervosa in general hospital settings (MARSIPAN (www.marsipan.org.uk)) and has developed a curriculum for the emerging sub-specialty of Eating Disorders Psychiatry currently being considered by the General Medical Council. For 3 years he was a member of the Bariatric Surgery team at the Whittington Hospital. His clinical work centres on eating disorders and general psychiatry. He also sees families and couples for therapy and assesses and advises patients before and after bariatric surgery.