Forensic psychiatry: clinical, legal and ethical issues
- 2nd ed.
- London : Routledge, 2020
- xlvi, 993 p. : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Contents:
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.
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