Studies in Forensic Psychiatry (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Glueck, Bernard Annaeus

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330341279 ISBN 13 : 9781330341278

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

A focused look at how forensic psychiatry links behavior, delusions, and crime through real case histories. Understand the mindset behind persistent patterns like kleptomania and litigious paranoia without sensationalism.

This nonfiction work examines how certain personality and mental health factors influence criminal behavior. It uses detailed case histories to illustrate how forensic psychiatrists assess, interpret, and discuss difficult cases in court and clinic. The emphasis is on understanding, not sensationalizing, the roots and patterns of these disorders.

By linking clinical observations to legal questions, the book sheds light on how diagnoses, symptoms, and motivations intersect with recidivism, obsessive litigation, and other anti-social behaviors. It presents a clinical perspective that is careful about judgments while sticking to observable evidence and established theories.

• How specific disorders can shape choices and actions in ways that challenge the legal system.


• How forensic psychiatrists analyze behavior, speech, and history to form judgments about danger and change.


• Case-based discussions of paranoia, kleptomania, and related phenomena within a legal framework.


• Broader questions about prognosis, treatment, and how to approach justice with insight from psychiatry.

Ideal for readers of clinical psychology, criminology, and those interested in the intersection of mental health and law.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Studies in Forensic Psychiatry

This volume is one of a series of Monograph Supplements to the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. The publication of the Monographs is authorized by the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology. Such a series has become necessary in America by reason of the rapid development of criminological research in this country since the organization of the Institute. Criminology draws upon many independent branches of science, such as Psychology, Anthropology, Neurology, Medicine, Education, Sociology, and Law. These sciences contribute to our understanding of the nature of the delinquent and to our knowledge of those conditions in home, occupation, school, prison, etc., which are best adapted to elicit the behavior that the race has learned to approve and cherish.

This series of Monographs, therefore, will include researches in each of these departments of knowledge insofar as they meet our special interest.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Présentation de l'éditeur

When, in 1810, Franz Joseph Gall said: "The measure of culpability and the measure of punishment can not be determined by a study of the illegal act, but only by a study of the individual committing it," he expressed an idea which has, in late years, come to be regarded as a trite truism. This called forth as an unavoidable consequence a more lively interest on the part of various social agencies in the personality of the criminal, with the resultant gradually increasing conviction that the suppression of crime is not primarily a legal question, but is rather a problem for the physician, sociologist, and economist.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330341279
• ISBN 13: 9781330341278
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 283
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