Self-Made Madness - Rethinking Illness and Criminal Responsibility

Summary

Edward Mitchell describes and examines the notion that mentally disordered offenders may, to varying degrees, be responsible for the causation or exacerbation of their own mental disorder and thus their concomitant criminal behaviour.

Product details

• Authors: Edward W. Mitchell, Mitchell Edward W.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.12.2003
• EAN: 9780754623328
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-2332-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Weight: 660 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; LAW / Criminal Law / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, Criminal law & procedure, Psychiatry, Abnormal psychology, Criminal or forensic psychology, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Criminal law: procedure and offences