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Offenders, deviants or patients? / Herschel Prins.
- Title
- Offenders, deviants or patients? / Herschel Prins.
- Author
- Prins, Herschel A.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HV8742.G72 P74 1995 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiii, 278 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Crime > prevention & control > Great Britain
- Criminal Psychology > methods > Great Britain
- Dangerous Behavior > Great Britain
- Forensic Psychiatry > Great Britain
- Mental Disorders > rehabilitation > Great Britain
- Mental Health Services > organization & administration > Great Britain
- Mentally ill > Care > Great Britain
- Mentally ill > Commitment and detention > Great Britain
- Mentally ill offenders > Great Britain
- Prisoners > psychology > Great Britain
- United Kingdom
- Note
- Originally published: London : Tavistock ; New York : Tavistock in association with Methuen, 1980.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword / John Wood -- pt. I. Legal and administrative frameworks. 1. Problem areas revisited. 2. Responsibility (liability) for crime. 3. Systems of disposal -- pt. II. Clinical considerations. 4. Mental disturbance and criminality. 5. Psychopathic disorder: a useful label? 6. Violence and homicide. 7. Fire-raising. 8. Sexual behaviour and misbehaviour. 9. Will they do it again? 10. Training: enhancing understanding -- 11. Concluding comments.
- ISBN
- 0415102200
- 0415102219 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^94034150^
- OCLC
- 31130918
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library