Mental Health and Crime

ISBN-13: 9781904385608 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 232 str.

Jill Peay

Opis

Does mental disorder cause crime? Does crime cause mental disorder? This text examines the nature of the relationship between mental disorder and crime, and concludes that the broad definition of mental disorder, and the widespread occurrence of offending would make unlikely any definitive or easy answer to these questions.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Mental Health and Crime  2. Crime  3. Mental Disorder  4. Are Mental Disorder and Crime Related?  5. Types of Crime  6. Mental Disorder and Violence  7. Symptoms and Causality  8. Causal Mechanisms, Criminology and Mental Disorder  9. Human Rights and Mentally Disordered Offenders  10. Deprivation of Liberty  11. Mental Disorder and Detention: A Perspective from Prison  12. The Intersection between Penality and Therapeutic Detention: Indeterminate Sentences for Public Protection  13. Medical Treatment: Offenders, Patients and Their Capacity  14. Individual and Personal Consequences: The Case of Smoking  15. Impossible Paradoxes  16. Treatment, Mental Disorder, Crime, Responsibility and Punishment  17. Fitness to Plead  18. Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder  19. Culpability and Treatment: Chasing Dragons?  20. Conclusions

O autorze

Jill Peay is a Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science.