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Mentally Disordered Offenders
Topical theme of mentally disordered offenders. Reputation of Herschel Prins, Editors and Contributors.
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
From a relatively modest background, author Herschel Prins rose to become a leading exponent of forensic work with offenders suffering from mental disorders. In this absorbing account, he traces his personal journey - as a 'main grade' probation officer, a UK Home Office civil servant, a trainer, an inspector to top level positions within academic institutions (notably at Leicester University and Loughborough University), with the Parole Board, key nationwide committees, inquiries, and beyond. His reflections - on a life geared to enhancing knowledge and understanding in this sphere - contain unique insights for practitioners, criminologists, and general readers alike. These are words of wisdom for the criminal justice system as it enters the second decade of the 21st century, written by a leading exponent of work with mentally disordered offenders. The book charts key events in a 50 year long career, which will be of particular interest to criminal psychologists, psychiatrists, parole officers, criminologists, judges, and all students of crime and punishment.
Offenders, Deviants or Patients?
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 behaviour, the extent to which this relationship is used or misused in the criminal courts, and the various facilities that are currently available for the management/incarceration of offenders/patients. Offenders, Deviants or Patients? will be invaluable to all those who come into contact with serious offenders, as well as those studying crime or criminal behaviour.
Through and Beyond Together
Through and Beyond, TOGETHER Scary things that happen in childhood do not have to affect you forever. It was bewildering for this four year-old boy to leave my happy family in wartime "to be safe!" To be nearly shipwrecked made me terrified, then fearful throughout childhood. My parents never stopped loving us from afar, and praying. Our new American family had faith and love too. Peace did come. We did return to England! There we moved to Ilford, Young fun-loving Christian friends there accepted stuttering little me. As I grew up still feeling fragile, they pushed me to apply for college when I often felt worthless. When God heard my cries of desperation in a phone box outside the college, ...
Foundations for offender management
'Offender management' for probation means continuing commitment to constructive work with individuals who break the law but in a changing multi-agency context. Providing a comprehensive introduction to criminal justice work, this book negotiates the structures set by law and policy and allows readers to think critically about roles, accountabilities and professional skills and judgement. Looking at key areas of practice and law, including youth justice, human rights and safeguarding children, the book will be essential for students and practitioners in criminal justice and probation studies.
Forensic Psychiatry, Race and Culture
Forensic psychiatry is the discipline which distinguishes the 'mad' from the 'bad', but are its values inherently racist? Why are individuals from non-Western backgrounds over-represented statistically in those diagnosed with schizophrenia and other serious illnesses? The authors argue that the values on which psychiatry is based are firmly rooted in ethnocentric Western culture, with profound implications for individual diagnosis and systems of care. Through detailed exploration of the history of psychiatry, current clinical issues and present public policy, this powerful book traces the growth of a system in which non-conformity to the prevailing cultural norms risks alienation and diagnosis of mental disorder.
Dictionary of Probation and Offender Management
Covers new ideas and concepts as well as the established probation lexicon, including institutional, legal, political and theoretical terms used in the discipline and importing concepts from the disciplines of sociology, criminology and psychology.
Curbing Corruption in Asian Countries
As corruption is a serious problem in many Asian countries their governments have introduced many anti-corruption measures since the 1950s. This book analyzes and evaluates the anti-corruption strategies employed in Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mongolia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand.
The Age of the Inquiry
The plethora of inquiry reports published in the fields of health and welfare in the 1990s covered the full range of user groups, individuals and institutions. What similarities or differences were there between these inquiries? How effective were they in bringing about change? Whose interest did they best serve? These are some of the questions The Age of the Inquiry explores in detail, bringing together distinguished contributors with personal experience of chairing or providing evidence to inquiries to consider: the participant's view of inquiries the purpose of inquiries the impact of inquiries on health and social policy inquiries into: child abuse and death; homicides by mental health service users; the abuse of adults with learning disabilities; the abuse of older people. Wide-ranging in scope, The Age of the Inquiry focuses on service and policy development. It provides an invaluable text for students, teachers and professionals from a wide range of disciplines and professional groups.
