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Disordered Personalities and Crime

David Jones
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      Disordered Personalities and Crime seeks to better understand how we respond to those individuals who have been labelled at various points in time as ‘morally insane’, ‘psychopathic’ or ‘personality disordered’. Individuals whose behaviour is consistent with these diagnoses present challenges to both the criminal justice system and mental health systems, because the people who come to have such diagnoses seem to have a rational and realistic understanding of the world around them but they can behave in ways that suggest they have little understanding of the meaning or consequences of their actions. This book argues that an analysis of the history of these diagnoses will help to provide a better understanding of contemporary dilemmas. These are categories that have been not only shaped by the needs of criminal justice and the claims of expertise by professionals, but also the fears, anxieties and demands of the wider public. In this book, David W. Jones demonstrates us how important these diagnoses have been to the history of psychiatry in its claims for professional expertise, and also sheds light on the evolution of the insanity defence and helps explain why it remains a problematic and controversial issue even today. This book will be key reading for students, researchers and academics who are interested in crime and its relationship to mental disorder and also for those interested in psychiatry and abnormal psychology.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: David Jones EAN: 9780415502061 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 544 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2015-08-04 CITY: GENRE: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Violence and abuse in society, Offenders, Criminal or forensic psychology

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      David W. Jones is Reader in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London and is the author of Understanding Criminal Behaviour: Psychosocial Approaches to Criminality (Willan, 2008) and, on mental illness, Myths, Madness and the Family (Palgrave, 2002).
      Disordered Personalities and Crime seeks to better understand how we respond to those individuals who have been labelled at various points in time as ‘morally insane’, ‘psychopathic’ or ‘personality disordered’. Individuals whose behaviour is consistent with these diagnoses present challenges to both the criminal justice system and mental health systems, because the people who come to have such diagnoses seem to have a rational and realistic understanding of the world around them but they can behave in ways that suggest they have little understanding of the meaning or consequences of their actions. This book argues that an analysis of the history of these diagnoses will help to provide a better understanding of contemporary dilemmas. These are categories that have been not only shaped by the needs of criminal justice and the claims of expertise by professionals, but also the fears, anxieties and demands of the wider public. In this book, David W. Jones demonstrates us how important these diagnoses have been to the history of psychiatry in its claims for professional expertise, and also sheds light on the evolution of the insanity defence and helps explain why it remains a problematic and controversial issue even today. This book will be key reading for students, researchers and academics who are interested in crime and its relationship to mental disorder and also for those interested in psychiatry and abnormal psychology.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: David Jones EAN: 9780415502061 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 544 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2015-08-04 CITY: GENRE: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Violence and abuse in society, Offenders, Criminal or forensic psychology

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      David W. Jones is Reader in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London and is the author of Understanding Criminal Behaviour: Psychosocial Approaches to Criminality (Willan, 2008) and, on mental illness, Myths, Madness and the Family (Palgrave, 2002).

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