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 and historic sex offending, hate crime, homicide, and other acts of serious bodily harm. This fifth edition is fully updated and incorporates the latest research and reflects recent changes in law, policy, and practice.
Key Features
- Incorporates DSM-V criteria
- Includes groundbreaking work on neuro-physiological aspects of psychopathy
- Covers the Coroners and Justice Act
- Utilises new case examples
- Examines the relationship between mental disorders and crime
- Offers a multidisciplinary approach
Additional Information
Herschel Prins draws on his own expertise and experience to look at the ways in which mental disorders should be dealt with by the mental health care and criminal justice systems. Offenders, Deviants or Patients? is unique and will be invaluable to all those who come into contact with serious offenders or those who study crime and criminal behaviour.
