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

Klappentext A detailed and systematic 1973 account of the extent to which mentally abnormal offenders are likely to commit crimes of violence. Zusammenfassung A detailed and systematic 1973 account of the extent to which mentally abnormal offenders are likely to commit violent crimes! 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of authors and collaborators; Foreword; Preface; Note on the translation; 1. Introduction: the problem viewed in the light of the psychiatric literature; 2. Previous studies of violence in the mentally abnormal; 3. Questions posed, population studied, methodology; 4. Results I: general data; 5. Results II: overall comparisons of sex, age and diagnosis; 6. Results III: comparative risk of violence in the mentally abnormal and in the control population; 7. Results IV: personality, illness and background of the crime-patient comparisons; 8. Results V: the crime and the victim; 9. Results VI: qualitative analysis of small diagnostic groups; 10. Summary and discussion; Appendix: data sheets; Bibliography; Notes; Name index; Subject index.

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• Authors: W. Boker, Boker W., H. H. Fner, H. Hafner, H. Boker Hafner, H. Häfner, H. Hfner
• Assisted by: Gibbens T. C. N. (Foreword), Marshall Helen (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2011
• EAN: 9780521107068
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10706-8
• No. of pages: 402
• Assisted by: G. Wagner
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, Psychiatry, Offenders / Criminals