Disordered Personalities and Crime: An Analysis of the History of Moral Insanity

by David W. Jones

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415502063
• ISBN13: 9780415502061
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"