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

Informationen zum Autor Sheilagh Hodgins is Professor at the Université de Montréal, Foreign Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, and Adjunct Professor at Concordia University, Montréal. Her recent books include Violence Among the Mentally Ill: Effective Treatments and Management Strategies (2000) and with R. Müller-Isberner Violence, Crime and Mentally Disordered Offenders: Concepts and Methods for Effective Treatment and Prevention (2000). Carl-Gunnar Janson is Sociology Professor Emeritus at Stockholm University. In 1964 he started Project Metropolitan and is still analyzing its data. He is the editor of Seven Swedish Longitudinal Studies in Behavioral Sciences (2000). Klappentext Attempts to describe and understand the criminality of the mentally disordered. Zusammenfassung In recent years there has been a significant increase in crime amongst persons suffering from major mental disorders. In this important new book the authors attempt to describe the criminality of the mentally ill and to identify the complex chain of factors which cause it. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; 1. Research on the criminality and violence of the mentally ill; 2. The longitudinal approach; 3. Swedish society and Stockholm: the cohort and its context; 4. Criminality; 5. Explanations of the criminality of the mentally ill; 6. Early and late starters; 7. Conclusion.

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• Authors: Sheilagh Hodgins, Sheilagh (Universite De Montreal) Janson Hodgins, Sheilagh Janson Hodgins, Hodgins Sheilagh, Carl-Gunnar Janson, Janson Carl-Gunnar
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.05.2009
• EAN: 9780521111355
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11135-5
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Criminolo; Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, Sweden, Psychiatry, Criminal or forensic psychology, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology