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Clinical Approach to the Mentally Disordered Offender (Wiley Series in Clinical Approaches to Criminal Behavior)

Clinical Approach to the Mentally Disordered Offender (Wiley Series in Clinical Approaches to Criminal Behavior)

by KevinHowells (Editor), Clive R . Hollin (Editor)

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    Hardcover 1993

    $324.54
Synopsis

This volume opens with a discussion of the conceptual issues that relate mental disorder to criminal behaviour. The first section covers law provisions, giving the legal classifications for the mentally disordered offender, including psychopathy, mental illness and mental handicap. In the following sections of text, the themes of clinical assessment and intervention for these three main groups are explored, with details of practice, settings in which the intervention takes place and the clinical programmes available.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 276
 Edition: 1st
 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 21 Sep 1993
ISBN 10: 0471939080
ISBN 13: 9780471939085

Author Bio

Kevin Howells is a chartered clinical and forensic psychologist. He has worked extensively as a practitioner, researcher and academic in the fields of forensic mental health and rehabilitation of offenders. He is Professor of Forensic/Clinical Psychology in the Institute of Mental Health at Nottingham University, a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and Academic Chair in the Peaks Unit at Rampton Hospital.

Clive R. Hollin is an emeritus professor at the University of Leicester. His research involves the interface between Psychology and Criminology.