Offenders, Deviants or Patients? - Softcover

Prins, Herschel

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9780415102216: Offenders, Deviants or Patients?

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ISBN 10: 0415102219 ISBN 13: 9780415102216

Publisher: Routledge, 1995

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How responsible are mentally disordered offenders for their crimes? Aimed specifically at understanding the social context of the serious criminal offender who is deemed to be mentally abnormal, this new edition of Offenders, Deviants or Patients? takes into account the many changes in legal practice, methods of treatment and attitudes since the first edition was published in 1980. Herschel Prins examines the relationship between mental 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 treatment.
Unique in its multidisciplinary approach Offenders, Deviants or Patients? will be invaluable to all those who come into contact with serious offenders.

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Aimed specifically at understanding the social context of the serious criminal offender who is deemed to be mentally abnormal, this edition of "Offenders, Deviants or Patients?" takes into account the many changes in legal practice, methods of treatment and attitudes since the first edition was published in 1981. Herschel Prins examines the relationship between mental 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 treatment. With its multidisciplinary approach "Offenders, Deviants or Patients?" should be valuable to all those who come into contact with serious offenders including psychiatrists and psychologists, social workers and probation officers, penal staff at all levels, lawyers and magistrates and the police.

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