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Bizarre Behaviours (Psychology Revivals)
Boundaries of Psychiatric Disorder
Series: Psychology Revivals
The most deviant forms of human behaviour can be disturbing, incomprehensible, and sometimes very frightening. Herschel Prins believes that even the most deviant-seeming behaviours have their counterparts in ‘normality’ and can often be seen as an extension of this. In Bizarre Behaviours he sets...
Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
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Offenders, Deviants or Patients?
3rd Edition
This third edition of Offenders, Deviants or Patients? is aimed specifically at understanding the social context of the serious criminal offender who is deemed to be mentally abnormal. Using up-to-date case examples, Herschel Prins examines the relationship between abnormality and criminal...
Published October 11th 2012 by Routledge
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Offenders, Deviants or Patients? Fourth Edition
Explorations in Clinical Criminology
Offenders, Deviants or Patients? provides a practical approach to understanding both the social context and treatment of mentally disordered offenders. Taking into account the current public concern, often heightened by media sensationalism, it addresses issues such as sex offending, homicide and...
Published June 23rd 2010 by Routledge
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Will They Do it Again?
Risk Assessment and Management in Criminal Justice and Psychiatry
Focus in the media on the risks posed to ordinary people has become increasingly strong in recent years - particularly on those risks popularly perceived to be posed by the mentally ill. But how justified is this concern? How do we best manage so-called dangerous people? In Will They Do It Again?...
Published September 8th 1999 by Routledge
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Offenders, Deviants or Patients?
2nd Edition
How responsible are mentally disordered offenders for their crimes? Aimed specifically at understanding the social context of the serious criminal offender who is deemed to be mentally abnormal, this new edition of Offenders, Deviants or Patients? takes into account the many changes in legal...
Published March 22nd 1995 by Routledge
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Fire-Raising: Its motivation and management
In recent years, fire-raising has become an increasing problem in Britain and elsewhere, and now involves many professionals in the investigation and management of those who set fires. The motives of fire-raisers are complex and their behaviour is hard to change. Herschel Prins sets the problem in...
Published November 24th 1993 by Routledge