Offenders, deviants or patients?
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 and mental health-care systems. The author examines the relationship between abnormality and criminal behavior and 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 and incarceration of offenders and patients, with case study examples
Methods (Music)
x, 332 pages ; 24 cm
9781583918258, 9781583918241, 1583918256, 1583918248
277231633
Part 1: Legal and Administrative Aspects. Prologue. Not in their Right Minds. Dealing with the Consequences. Part 2: Clinical Aspects. Minds Diseased. 'But someone has to deal with them'. Bloody Deeds. Unlawful Sex. 'Up in Smoke'. The 'Crystal Ball' of Risk Assessment. 'The Play's the Thing'. Epilogue.