Forensic psychiatry : clinical, legal and ethical issues

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This is a practical guide to the psychiatry of offenders, victims, and survivors of crime. It integrates the clinical, legal, and ethical aspects of forensic psychiatry with contributions from internationally regarded experts from a range of clinical professions. Contents include: criminal and civil law for the psychiatrist in England and Wales; mental health and capacity law; psychiatric reports for legal purposes; psychosocial milieu of the offender; genetic influences on antisocial behaviour, problem substance use and schizophrenia; violence; disordered and offensive sexual behaviour; offenders with intellectual disabilities; psychosis, violence and crime; pathologies of passion and related antisocial behaviours; personality disorders; deception, dissociation and malingering; addictions and dependencies; juvenile offenders and adolescent psychiatry; women as offenders; older people and the criminal justice system; dangerousness; principles of treatment for the mentally disordered offender; forensic mental health services in the United Kingdom and Ireland; ethics in forensic psychiatry; deviant and sick medical staff; victims and survivors;