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Disordered Personalities and Crime - An analysis of the history of moral insanity (Paperback, New)
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Disordered Personalities and Crime - An analysis of the history of moral insanity (Paperback, New)
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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 insane', 'psychopathic' or 'personality
disordered'. Individuals whose behaviour is consistent with these
diagnoses present challenges to both the criminal justice system
and mental health systems, because the people who come to have such
diagnoses seem to have a rational and realistic understanding of
the world around them but they can behave in ways that suggest they
have little understanding of the meaning or consequences of their
actions. This book argues that an analysis of the history of these
diagnoses will help to provide a better understanding of
contemporary dilemmas. These are categories that have been not only
shaped by the needs of criminal justice and the claims of expertise
by professionals, but also the fears, anxieties and demands of the
wider public. In this book, David W. Jones demonstrates us how
important these diagnoses have been to the history of psychiatry in
its claims for professional expertise, and also sheds light on the
evolution of the insanity defence and helps explain why it remains
a problematic and controversial issue even today. This book will be
key reading for students, researchers and academics who are
interested in crime and its relationship to mental disorder and
also for those interested in psychiatry and abnormal psychology.
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