RT Article
T1 Doctoring with conviction: criminal records and the medical profession
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 58
IS 2
SP 394
OP 413
A1 Chamberlain, John Martyn 1972-
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1574008587
AB 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.
K1 Criminal record
K1 Desistance
K1 Employment
K1 Ex-offenders
K1 Medical profession
K1 Re-entry
K1 Vorstrafe
K1 Ehemalige Straftäter
K1 Medizinische Berufe
DO 10.1093/bjc/azx016