Mentally Abnormal Offender (eBook)

A. V. S. de Reuck and Ruth Porter are the editors of The Mentally Abnormal Offender and other titles.

THE MENTALLY ABNORMAL OFFENDER 1
Contents 7
Chairman’s opening remarks 15
Will this man be dangerous?* 19
Schizophrenia and delinquency: the inadequacy of our conceptual framework 33
Discussion 42
Cerebral disease and mental disorders of old age as causes of antisocial behaviour 49
Discussion 66
Affective disorders: cyclophrenia and murder 73
Discussion 81
Delinquent and disturbed behaviour within the field of mental deficiency 90
Discussion 101
The moral responsibility for Welsh psychopaths 105
Discussion 113
Threshold of tolerance in various population groups illustrated by results from Danish criminological twin study 121
Discussion 128
Custody and release of dangerous offenders 135
Discussion 140
The conventional mental hospital and the English penal system 144
Discussion 154
Psychopathic and neurotic offenders in mental hospitals 157
Discussion 163
Aftercare for mentally abnormal offenders in the Netherlands 166
Discussion 177
General discussion 184
The detention unit for abnormal criminals,Herstedvester 184
The indeterminate sentence 185
The penal and mental health systems: mentally normal and abnormal offenders 191
The psychiatrist’s responsibility to the community 193
Criteria for the assessment of dangerousness 198
The mentally disordered offender and the criminal law 202
The concept of mental abnormality in the administration of justice outside the courtroom 215
Discussion 227
Hospital Orders 233
Discussion 248
Final discussion Psychiatric and legal approaches in the treatment of delinquents 255
Chairman’s closing remarks 265
Author Index 269
Subject Index 270