Offenders, Deviants or Patients? 2nd Edition

✍ Scribed by Herschel Prins

• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 297
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

How responsible are mentally disordered offenders for their crimes? Aimed specifically at understanding the social context of the serious criminal offender who is deemed to be mentally abnormal, this new edition of Offenders, Deviants or Patients? takes into account the many changes in legal practice, methods of treatment and attitudes since the first edition was published in 1980. Herschel Prins examines the relationship between mental abnormality and criminal behaviour, the extent to which this relationship is used (or misused) in the criminal courts and the various facilities that are currently available for treatment.Unique in its multidisciplinary approach Offenders, Deviants or Patients? will be invaluable to all those who come into contact with serious offenders.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of illustrations......Page 9
Foreword by Sir John Wood......Page 10
Preface......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 15
Note on case examples......Page 16
1 Problem areas revisited......Page 20
2 Responsibility (liability) for crime......Page 28
3 Systems of disposal......Page 62
4 Mental disturbance and criminality......Page 106
5 Psychopathic disorder: a useful label?......Page 138
6 Violence and homicide......Page 162
7 Fire-raising......Page 189
8 Sexual behaviour and misbehaviour......Page 215
9 Will they do it again?......Page 247
10 Training: enhancing understanding......Page 271
11 Concluding comments......Page 286
Name index......Page 289
Subject index......Page 293