Mentally Disordered Offenders: Managing People Nobody Owns

by Robert Harris and David Webb

Managing the Mentally Disordered Offender presses the case for better health care of mentally disturbed law breakers, and the need to divert them from unnecessary imprisonment.
Mentally disordered offenders present particular problems in our society, which wants both to sympathise and to punish. How do we get the balance right between sympathy towards their illness and genuine worries about their offending behaviour? What do we do for - and about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415180104
• ISBN13: 9780415180108
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"