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This text provides a practical approach to understanding both the social context and treatment of mentally disordered offenders. It addresses issues such as sex offending and homicide and reflects recent changes in law, policy and practice.
Examines the relationship between mental abnormality and criminal behaviour, the ways this is used or misused in the courts and the treatment available. Thoroughly updated and unique in its multidisciplinary approach.
Offenders, Deviants or Patients? provides a practical approach to understanding both the social context and treatment of mentally disordered offenders. Taking into account the current public concern, often heightened by media sensationalism, it addresses issues such as sex offending, homicide and other acts of serious bodily harm. This fourth edition comes after extensive new research by academics and professionals in the field and reflects recent changes in law, policy and practice, including: new sex offending legislation proposals to amend homicide legislation a new mental health act. Using new case examples, Herschel Prins examines the relationship between mental disorders and crime and looks at the ways in which it should be dealt with by the mental health care and criminal justice systems. Offenders, Deviants or Patients? is unique in its multidisciplinary approach and will be invaluable to all those who come into contact with serious offenders or those who study crime and criminal behaviour.
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.
"Aimed specifically at understanding the social context of the serious criminal offender who is deemed to be mentally abnormal, the third edition of Offenders, Deviants or Patients? 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 healthcare systems." "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." "Unique in its multidisciplinary approach, Offenders, Deviants or Patients? will be invaluable to all those who come into contact with serious offenders, as well as to those studying crime and criminal behaviour."--BOOK JACKET.
Offenders, Deviants or Patients? provides a practical approach to understanding both the social context and treatment of mentally disordered offenders. Taking into account the current public concern, often heightened by media sensationalism, it addresses issues such as sex offending, homicide and other acts of serious bodily harm. This fourth edition comes after extensive new research by academics and professionals in the field and reflects recent changes in law, policy and practice, including: new sex offending legislation proposals to amend homicide legislation a new mental health act. Using new case examples, Herschel Prins examines the relationship between mental disorders and crime and looks at the ways in which it should be dealt with by the mental health care and criminal justice systems. Offenders, Deviants or Patients? is unique in its multidisciplinary approach and will be invaluable to all those who come into contact with serious offenders or those who study crime and criminal behaviour.
Essential reading for all professionals working in the psychiatric and criminal justice systems with mentally disordered offenders.
Differences in the perception of certain psychopathological and criminal behaviour are analysed in this volume, as the author believes conflicting assumptions may hinder the effective implementation of a number of key criminological and clinical policy initiatives.
Topical theme of mentally disordered offenders. Reputation of Herschel Prins, Editors and Contributors.