TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gunn, J (ed)
AU  - Taylor, P J (ed)
TI  - Forensic psychiatry : clinical, legal and ethical issues
SN  - 0340806281
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London
PB  - Hodder Arnold
N1  - Vitalsource scratch panel electronic content not available to library users
N2  - This is a practical guide to the psychiatry of offenders, victims, and survivors of crime. It integrates the clinical, legal, and ethical aspects of forensic psychiatry with contributions from internationally regarded experts from a range of clinical professions. Contents include: criminal and civil law for the psychiatrist in England and Wales; mental health and capacity law; psychiatric reports for legal purposes; psychosocial milieu of the offender; genetic influences on antisocial behaviour, problem substance use and schizophrenia; violence; disordered and offensive sexual behaviour; offenders with intellectual disabilities; psychosis, violence and crime; pathologies of passion and related antisocial behaviours; personality disorders; deception, dissociation and malingering; addictions and dependencies; juvenile offenders and adolescent psychiatry; women as offenders; older people and the criminal justice system; dangerousness; principles of treatment for the mentally disordered offender; forensic mental health services in the United Kingdom and Ireland; ethics in forensic psychiatry; deviant and sick medical staff; victims and survivors
ER  -