DESCRIPTION:
Comprehensive and erudite, this book is a practical guide to the psychiatry of offenders, victims, and survivors of crime. This landmark publication has been completely updated but retains all the features that made the first edition such a well-established text. It integrates the clinical, legal, and ethical aspects of forensic psychiatry with contributions from internationally regarded experts from a range of clinical professions.
Almost all chapters have been completely rewritten. New chapters for this second edition address the genetics of antisocial behaviour, disorders of brain structure and function that relate to crime, offenders with intellectual disabilities, and deviant staff. Although the book focuses on jurisdictions in the UK, a substantial comparative chapter written by an international group from all five continents explores the different philosophies, legal principles, and style of services elsewhere.
The book is an essential reference for specialists and postgraduate trainees in forensic psychiatry but also for general psychiatrists, and clinical and forensic psychologists. It is also an invaluable resource for other forensic mental health professionals, including nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, probation service staff, police, attorneys, criminologists, and sociologists.
Features:
- Discusses clinical assessment, management, and treatment of offenders with mental disorders, including treatment in a range of secure hospital facilities, in prisons, and in the community
- Contains a thorough review of the evidence base from an international perspective
- Addresses legal and ethical issues
- Provides guidance on report writing and testifying in court
CONTENTS:
1. Law in England and Wales and crime
2. The law, mental health and capacity in England and Wales
3. Law - others in British Isles
4. Law - international
5. Court reports
6. Psychosocial milieu of offenders
7. Genetics
8. Disorders of Brain Structure and Function and Crime
9. Intellectual difficulties
10. Violence
11. Psychosis and violence
12. Disorders of passions
13. Personality disorders
14. Deception
15. Addictions and dependencies: their association with offending
16. Sex disorders
17. Other crime
18. Women as offenders
19. Older offenders
20. Juveniles
21. Risk Assessment
22. Treatment
23. Health services
24. Mentally disordered offenders in non-medical settings
25. Ethics
26. Deviant staff
27. Victims
