Offenders, Deviants or Patients?

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Routledge, 12 okt 2012 - 344 pagina's
This third edition of Offenders, Deviants or Patients? is aimed specifically at understanding the social context of the serious criminal offender who is deemed to be mentally abnormal. Using up-to-date case examples, Herschel Prins examines the relationship between 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 the management/incarceration of offenders/patients. Offenders, Deviants or Patients? will be invaluable to all those who come into contact with serious offenders, as well as those studying crime or criminal behaviour.

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Inhoudsopgave

Prologue
1
PART I Legal and administrative aspects
11
Chapter 1 Not in their right minds
13
Chapter 2 Dealing with the consequences
44
PART II Clinical aspects
93
Chapter 3 Minds diseased
95
Chapter 4 But someone has to deal with them
145
Chapter 5 Bloody deeds
174
Chapter 6 Unlawful sex
210
Chapter 7 Up in smoke
244
Chapter 8 The crystal ball of risk assessment
261
Chapter 9 The plays the thing
286
Epilogue
305
Author index
311
Subject index
319
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Over de auteur (2012)

Professor Herschel Prins has worked in the fields of criminality and mental health for some fifty years. He has served on a number of public and voluntary bodies, authored numerous books and articles and continues to teach part-time at a number of universities. This edition of his book up-dates the two previous editions - the first having appeared some twenty five years ago.

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