With contributions from well-known experts, this volume 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. Supplying a thorough review of the evidence base, the contributors explore legal and ethical issues, report-writing, and testifying in court. This edition includes new chapters on the genetics of antisocial behaviour, disorders of brain structure, offenders with intellectual disabilities, older people and the criminal justice system, and deviant and sick staff. The printed text is supplemented with a digital book featuring links to key references.
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John C Gunn CBE FRCPsych FMedSci Member, Parole Board, England & Wales; Emeritus Professor of Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK
Pamela J Taylor FRCPsych FMedSci Professor of Forensic Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, UK
Zusammenfassung
Highly Commended, BMA Medical Book Awards 2014Comprehensive and erudite, Forensic Psychiatry: Clinical, Legal and Ethical Issues, Second Edition 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.The Second Edition features updates to all current chapters and several new chapters that explore:The genetics of antisocial behaviorDisorders of brain structure and function that relate to crimeOffenders with intellectual disabilitiesOlder people and the criminal justice systemDeviant and mentally ill staffAlthough 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. This 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.
Inhalt
Introduction. Criminal and civil law for the psychiatrist in England and Wales. Mental health and capacity laws including their administering bodies. Legal arrangements in the rest of the British Isles and Islands. Forensic psychiatry and its interfaces outside the UK and Ireland. Psychiatric reports for legal purposes in England and Wales. The psychosocial milieu of the offender. Genetic influences on antisocial behaviour, problem substance use and schizophrenia: evidence from quantitative genetic and molecular genetic studies. Violence. Disordered and offensive sexual behaviour. The majority of crime: theft, motoring and criminal damage (including arson). Disorders of brain structure and function and crime. Offenders with intellectual disabilities. Psychosis, violence and crime. Pathologies of passion and related antisocial behaviours. Personality disorders. Deception, dissociation and malingering. Addictions and dependencies: their association with offending. Juvenile offenders and adolescent psychiatry. Women as offenders. Older people and the criminal justice system. Dangerousness. Principles of treatment for the mentally disordered offender. Forensic mental health services in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Offenders and alleged offenders with mental disorder in non-medical settings. Ethics in forensic psychiatry. Deviant and sick medical staff. Victims and survivors. Appendices. Cases cited. References. Index.