Offenders, Deviants or Patients?

Herschel Prins

• 23 maart 1995
• 9780415102216

Samenvatting:

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.