Psychiatric Criminology - A Roadmap for Rapid Assessment

Informationen zum Autor John A. Liebert, MD, William J. Birnes, JD, PhD Klappentext This book addresses the need to recognize the psychiatric component of criminological issues and the methodology of dealing with it on a practical as well as academic basis. It provides a roadmap for training in rapid assessment built on evidence-based emergency psychiatry protocols. Zusammenfassung This book addresses the need to recognize the psychiatric component of criminological issues and the methodology of dealing with it on a practical as well as academic basis. It provides a roadmap for training in rapid assessment built on evidence-based emergency psychiatry protocols. Inhaltsverzeichnis Through a lens darkly. A brief history of managing the mentally ill. The misleading statistics of violence and crime. The drivers of violence-related crime statistics. The Tarasoff Decision. The importance of informed consent. Police and psychiatric patient encounters. Protecting our greatest natural resource: Our youth in schools. Special problems of our veterans. Corrections psychiatry. Special problems of the homeless. Role of occupational psychiatry for frontline public safety and health officers. Innovations in psychiatric criminology. Special forensic issues. Suicidal pilots in the aviation industry. Prevention in the era of optimized patient flow, criminalization of serious neuropsychiatric disease and anemic occupational and student health services. The terrorist and the suicide cult.

Product details

• Authors: JD Birnes, William J. Birnes JD PhD, MD Liebert, MD Birnes Liebert, John A. Liebert MD
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.08.2016
• EAN: 9781498714174
• ISBN: 978-1-4987-1417-4
• No. of pages: 405
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, Psychiatry, Criminal or forensic psychology, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology