Mental health and crime /
Peay, Jill.
Abingdon New York, NY : Routledge,
2011.
"A GlassHouse book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Mental health and crime -- Crime -- Mental disorder -- Are mental disorder and crime related? -- Types of crime -- Mental disorder and violence -- Symptoms and causality -- Causal mechanisms, criminology and mental disorder -- Human rights and mentally disordered offenders -- Deprivation of liberty -- Mental disorder and detention : a perspective from prison -- The intersection between penality and therapeutic detention : indeterminate sentences for public protection -- Medical treatment : offenders, patients and their capacity -- Individual and personal consequences : the case of smoking -- Impossible paradoxes -- Treatment, mental disorder, crime, responsibility and punishment -- Fitness to plead -- Dangerous and severe personality disorder -- Culpability and treatment : chasing dragons? -- Conclusions.
Offenders with mental disabilities.
People with mental disabilities and crime.
Crime
Criminal psychology.