Crimes of Violence by Mentally Abnormal Offenders: A Psychiatric and Epidemiological Study in the Federal German Republic

by A. Schmitt, J. Werner, C. Kohler, et al.

Book Overview

Originally published in German in 1973, and first published in English as this Cambridge edition in 1982, this is a detailed and systematic account of the extent to which mentally abnormal offenders are likely to commit crimes of major violence, based upon a study of all the 533 men and women in the Federal German Republic from 1955 to 1964 who were detained in hospitals after committing homicide or near-homicide. The authors calculated that such...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521107067
• ISBN13: 9780521107068
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"