Mental health and crime / Jill Peay.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peay, Jill
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2011.
Series:Contemporary issues in public policy.
Subjects:
Offenders with mental disabilities.
People with mental disabilities and crime.
Crime > Psychological aspects.
Criminal psychology.
Local Note:
This resource was acquired with funds from Office of the Provost, Michigan State University, in honor of Professor Fred E. Vanosdall, who retired from the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering in 1993.
Physical Description:xvi, 228 pages ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
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.