Disordered Personalities and Crime: An analysis of the history of moral insanity

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.

Author: David Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 08/12/2015
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780415502177

About the Author

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).