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Working with the Mentally Disordered Offender in the Community
Vaughan, P.; Badger, D
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Description for Working with the Mentally Disordered Offender in the Community
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JKVQ1; MMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 295.
In the past forensic psychiatry has been a sub-speciality of general psychiatry without its own, separate identity. However, since the mid-1980s there has been a growing in terest in the application of community care principles to mentally disordered offenders. A new set of attitudes have developed which have enabled the mentally disordered offender to emerge from relative institutional obscurity to a much higher profile in the community. Although numerically small in relation to the general psychiatric population, forensic patients tend to attract the public' s attention by virtue of their greater propensity for troublesome behaviour. Such a group needs expert ... Read more
In the past forensic psychiatry has been a sub-speciality of general psychiatry without its own, separate identity. However, since the mid-1980s there has been a growing in terest in the application of community care principles to mentally disordered offenders. A new set of attitudes have developed which have enabled the mentally disordered offender to emerge from relative institutional obscurity to a much higher profile in the community. Although numerically small in relation to the general psychiatric population, forensic patients tend to attract the public' s attention by virtue of their greater propensity for troublesome behaviour. Such a group needs expert ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Thomson Learning United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
257
Place of Publication
Clifton Park, United States
ISBN
9781565933262
SKU
V9781565933262
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99-15
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