Prison psychology -- Great Britain

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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 is concerned with the media's role in everyday life, power relations and the construction of masculine identities in the context of prisons. It is based upon unique research into the nature, impact and consequences of a situation where most prisoners in English prisons…