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This third edition takes into account major changes in the law, attitudes towards responsibility and liability for crime, the updating of research findings concerning mental disorders and criminality and our procedures for managing offender-patients through the criminal justice …
Aimed specifically at understanding the social context of the serious criminal offender who is deemed to be mentally abnormal, this third edition takes into account major changes in the law, attitudes, research findings and procedures.
Part I Legal and adminstrative frameworks -- 1 Problem areas revisited -- Responsibility (liability) for crime -- 3 Systems of disposal -- Part II Clinical considerations -- 4 Mental disturbance -- 5 Psychopathic disorder : a useful label -- 6 Violence and homicide -- 7 Fire-rai…
This book provides a concise introduction to the increasingly important field of forensic mental health. It aims to set out both the key concepts in forensic mental health as well as the way the discipline operates in the broader context of criminal justice and mental health car…
This title provides an introduction to the increasingly important field of forensic mental health.