Criminality and Violence Among the Mentally Disordered: The Stockholm Metropolitan Project

by Sheilagh Hodgins and Carl-Gunnar Janson

Book Overview

In recent years it has become apparent that mentally ill people are at increased risk of committing crimes of violence. Most writing and research about crime and mental disorder has focused necessarily on the immediate problems which confront clinicians and law makers - assessing and managing the future risk of violence. In this important new book the authors attempt to step back from these immediate preoccupations and describe the criminality of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521111358
• ISBN13: 9780521111355
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"