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.
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.
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.
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…
In the late 1970s, South African mental institutions were plagued with scandals about human rights abuse, and psychiatric practitioners were accused of being agents of the apartheid state. Between 1939 and 1994, some psychiatric practitioners supported the mandate of the racist …
Examining the legal and administrative regime of the 19th century asylum, this text argues that it is to be thought of as an aspect of English poor law, in which the medical superintendent of the asylum had little power.
Examining the legal and administrative regime of the 19th century asylum, this text argues that it is to be thought of as an aspect of English poor law, in which the medical superintendent of the asylum had little power.
This book is about the social understanding and treatment of the mentally ill, incompetent, and disabled in late medieval England. Drawing on archival, literary, medical, legal, and ecclesiastic sources and studies, the volume seeks to present a coherent picture of society's tre…
