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Author: Herschel Prins
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 0415464285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text provides a practical approach to understanding both the social context and treatment of mentally disordered offenders. It addresses issues such as sex offending and homicide and reflects recent changes in law, policy and practice.
Author: Herschel A. Prins
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0415102200
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the relationship between mental abnormality and criminal behaviour, the ways this is used or misused in the courts and the treatment available. Thoroughly updated and unique in its multidisciplinary approach.
Author: Herschel Prins
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-06-17
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 1136993614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffenders, Deviants or Patients? provides a practical approach to understanding both the social context and treatment of mentally disordered offenders. Taking into account the current public concern, often heightened by media sensationalism, it addresses issues such as sex offending, homicide and other acts of serious bodily harm. This fourth edition comes after extensive new research by academics and professionals in the field and reflects recent changes in law, policy and practice, including: new sex offending legislation proposals to amend homicide legislation a new mental health act. Using new case examples, Herschel Prins examines the relationship between mental disorders and crime and looks at the ways in which it should be dealt with by the mental health care and criminal justice systems. Offenders, Deviants or Patients? is unique in its multidisciplinary approach and will be invaluable to all those who come into contact with serious offenders or those who study crime and criminal behaviour.
Author: Herschel A. Prins
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781317494850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Watson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-03-23
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780521403429
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssential reading for all professionals working in the psychiatric and criminal justice systems with mentally disordered offenders.
Author: Robert Harris
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-01-04
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 1134679882
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTopical theme of mentally disordered offenders. Reputation of Herschel Prins, Editors and Contributors.
Author: Kate Moss
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-05-09
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1134265832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis innovative and pioneering new book establishes links between crime reduction and the law, uniquely offering a detailed examination of how specific legislation and performance targets aid or undermine attempts at crime reduction. Providing a sustained analysis, this ground-breaking book considers the social policy, politics and legislation that surround and drive the crime reduction agenda. It analyzes: the creation of 'safe environments' through Town and Country Planning legislation the role of local authorities in crime reduction initiatives the nature of drug policy, paedophilia legislation and programs to control mental disorder crime. Bringing together the work of internationally renowned experts in this field, this book will prove very useful to students of criminology and sociology, as well as crime prevention and reduction practitioners, police officers and community safety partnership professionals.
Author: Tom Mason
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-11
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1317882806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent years mentally disordered offenders have attracted considerable attention in the media and there has been heated public debate as to the best treatment and prevention of re-offending. Simultaneously there has been a significant increase in the amount of research, specialist courses and training devoted to this particular, high profile area of mental health care. This is as a result of considerable public pressure to develop effective theory and practice for diagnosing and treating this patient group.A Sociology of the Mentally Disordered Offender provides a concise, and most importantly, accessible guide to the main theoretical issues from a sociological perspective as a counterbalance to the predominant medical model. Having established a theoretical framework through the exploration of topics such as the relationship between crime and mental disorder the authors look at the processes by which offenders are referred either to criminal justice or the mental health service system, their subsequent treatment and management, and the problem of re-offending. A final chapter looks at ways in which care and management of these patients may be effectively developed in the future.
Author: Julie Trebilcock
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-21
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1315520354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the controversial relationship between mental health and offending and looks at the ways in which offenders with mental health problems are cared for, coerced and controlled by the criminal justice and mental health systems. It provides a much-needed criminological approach to the field of forensic mental health. Beginning with an exploration into why the relationship between mental health and offending is so complex, readers will be introduced to a range of perspectives through which mental health and its relationship to offending behaviour can be understood. The book considers the politics surrounding mental health and offending, focusing particularly on the changing policy response to mentally disordered offenders since the mid-1990s. With dedicated chapters concerning the police, courts, secure services and the community, this book explores a range of issues including: • The tensions between the care, coercion and control of mentally disordered offenders • The increasingly blurred boundaries between mental health and criminal justice • Rights, responsibilities, accountability and blame • Risk, public protection and precaution • Challenges involved with treatment, recovery and rehabilitation • Staffing challenges surrounding multi-agency working • Funding, privatisation and challenges surrounding service commissioning • Methodological challenges in the field. Providing an accessible and concise overview of the field and its key perspectives, this book is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in mental health offered by criminology, criminal justice, sociology, social work, nursing and public policy departments. It will also be of interest to a wide range of mental health and criminal justice practitioners.
Author: Iain Crow
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2001-07-23
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780761960393
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTreatment and rehabilitation have been central to the development of criminal justice policy, and have played an important role in the development of criminology. In recent years punishment and retribution have attracted more attention than rehabilitation, but there has been a resurgence of interest in treatment and rehabilitation, with indications that some things do 'work', and an emphasis on 'evidence-based' policy making. It is also the belief of many that a penal policy without an adequate treatment strategy is unjust and a denial of human rights. In this book Iain Crow provides an accessible overview of the concepts of treatment and rehabilitation, adopting a deliberately broad definition, and considers the historic
