Homicidal Insanity, 1800-1985

Informationen zum Autor Janet Colaizzi is research historian who resides in Williamsburg, Virginia. Klappentext "Colaizzi! a research historian! has done an excellent! scholarly study of the phenomenon of homicide associated with mental illness! including all the players in this sad! cruel game... the psychiatrist! the afflicted! the official authorities! and finally! society at large." - Academic Library Book Review Zusammenfassung Homicidal insanity has remained a vexation to both the psychiatric and legal professions despite the panorama of scientific and social change during the past 200 years. Still! to this day no rational method exists to discriminate the dangerous from the harmless in matters of involuntary commitment! nor insanity from crime in the courts.

Product details

• Authors: Janet Colaizzi
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2002
• EAN: 9780817311858
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1185-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 6 mm
• Series: History of American Science &; History of American Science & Technology Series; History Amer Science & Technol; History of American Science an
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology