Offenders, Deviants or Patients? provides a practical approach to understanding both the
social context and treatment of mentally disordered offenders. Taking into account the …

For a myriad of reasons the criminal justice system has become the de facto mental health
system. This book explores how and why this is the case. Sensationalized cases often drive …

The mentally disordered criminal is a public nightmare, and themanagement of these
offenders can be driven as much by politicaland economic concerns as by scientific …

Given the august undertaking and compendium of psychiatric/psychological knowledge
encompassed in each successive iteration of the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) …

Written by an internationally renowned authority in the field, the founder of the highly
regarded School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University, the book draws heavily on …

Disordered Personalities and Crime seeks to better understand how we respond to those
individuals who have been labelled at various points in time as 'morally …

Criminology: The Key Concepts is an authoritative and comprehensive study guide and
reference resource that will take you through all the concepts, approaches, issues and …

Forensic Psychiatry is the first book to cover the clinical, legal and ethical issues for the
treatment of mentally disordered offenders for all of the United Kingdom and Republic of …

The assumption that mental disorder is a cause of crime is the foundation of forensic
psychiatry, but conceptual, epistemological, and empirical analyses show that neither …

This companion presents the major debates and issues in critical criminology. It presents
new research on crime, policy and the internationalisation of the criminal justice system. It …