Offenders, Deviants or Patients?

"Aimed specifically at understanding the social context of the serious criminal offender who is deemed to be mentally abnormal, the third edition of Offenders, Deviants or Patients? takes into account major changes in the law, attitudes towards responsibility and liability for crime, the updating of research findings concerning mental disorders and criminality and our procedures for managing offender-patients through the criminal justice and mental healthcare systems." "Using up-to-date case examples, Herschel Prins examines the relationship between abnormality and criminal behaviour, the extent to which this relationship is used or misused in the criminal courts, and the various facilities that are currently available for the management/incarceration of offenders/patients." "Unique in its multidisciplinary approach, Offenders, Deviants or Patients? will be invaluable to all those who come into contact with serious offenders, as well as to those studying crime and criminal behaviour."--BOOK JACKET.