David W Jones

Disordered Personalities and Crime

An analysis of the history of moral insanity

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Produktbeschreibung

Disordered Personalities and Crime seeks to better understand how we respond to those individuals who have been labelled at various points in time as 'morally insane', 'psychopathic' or 'personality disordered'. This book argues that an analysis of the history of these diagnoses will help to provide a better understanding of contemporary dilemmas. This book will be key reading for students, researchers and academics who are interested in crime and its relationship to mental disorder and also forthose interested in psychiatry and abnormal psychology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780415502061
• ISBN-10: 0415502063
• Artikelnr.: 42606147

Autorenporträt

David W. Jones is Reader in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London and is the author of Understanding Criminal Behaviour: Psychosocial Approaches to Criminality (Willan, 2008) and, on mental illness, Myths, Madness and the Family (Palgrave, 2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Excavating Moral Insanity 1. Informal Insanity in the 18th
Century Court 2. The Medical Discourse of 'moral insanity' 3. The Rise of
Psychiatry in the post-M'Naghten Years 4. Culture and Moral Insanity:
Selfhood and Social Degeneration 5. Moral Imbecility: Feeblemindedness and
the road to eugenics 6. Psychopathy in the US: Psychiatry, Psycholanalysis
and Sexual Selves 7. Social Formulations of Psychopathy: The Therapeutic
Community 8. DSM and the Proliferation of Personality Disorders 9. Shifting
Grounds: The Mass Media and the Insanity Defence 10. Concluding Discussion:
The Contemporary Debates: Policy, Theory and Treatment.