Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 228 pages)
ISBN:
9780203842584
,
9781136906244
,
9781136906282
,
9781136906299
Series Statement:
Contemporary issues in public policy
Content:
Mental health and crime -- Crime -- Mental disorder -- Are mental disorder and crime related? -- Types of crime -- Mental disorder and violence -- Symptoms and causality -- Causal mechanisms, criminology and mental disorder -- Human rights and mentally disordered offenders -- Deprivation of liberty -- Mental disorder and detention : a perspective from prison -- The intersection between penality and therapeutic detention : indeterminate sentences for public protection -- Medical treatment : offenders, patients and their capacity -- Individual and personal consequences : the case of smoking -- Impossible paradoxes -- Treatment, mental disorder, crime, responsibility and punishment -- Fitness to plead -- Dangerous and severe personality disorder -- Culpability and treatment : chasing dragons? -- Conclusions.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [202]-219) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781904385608
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415521161
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781904385608
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203842584
