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Mental health and crime / Jill Peay.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peay, Jill.
- Series:
- Contemporary issues in public policy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Offenders with mental disabilities.
- People with mental disabilities and crime.
- Crime--Psychological aspects.
- Crime.
- Criminal psychology.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 228 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2011.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- "GlassHouse book."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781904385608
- 1904385605
- OCLC:
- 148594691
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