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Peay JIll

Mental health and crime - London Routledge 2011 - 228p xiv

Contents:
Introduction 1. Mental Health and Crime 2. Crime 3. Mental Disorder 4. Are Mental Disorder and Crime Related? 5. Types of Crime 6. Mental Disorder and Violence 7. Symptoms and Causality 8. Causal Mechanisms, Criminology and Mental Disorder 9. Human Rights and Mentally Disordered Offenders 10. Deprivation of Liberty 11. Mental Disorder and Detention: A Perspective from Prison 12. The Intersection between Penality and Therapeutic Detention: Indeterminate Sentences for Public Protection 13. Medical Treatment: Offenders, Patients and Their Capacity 14. Individual and Personal Consequences: The Case of Smoking 15. Impossible Paradoxes 16. Treatment, Mental Disorder, Crime, Responsibility and Punishment 17. Fitness to Plead 18. Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder 19. Culpability and Treatment: Chasing Dragons? 20. Conclusions

ISBN: 9780415521161

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Offenders With Mental Disabilities2. Mental Disabilities - Crime3. Crime - Psychological Aspects4. Criminal Psychology

Dewey Class. No.: 364.3 / PEA