Crimes of Violence by Mentally Abnormal Offenders: A Psychiatric and Epidemiological Study in the Federal German RepublicOriginally published in German in 1973, and first published in English as this Cambridge edition in 1982, this is a detailed and systematic account of the extent to which mentally abnormal offenders are likely to commit crimes of major violence, based upon a study of all the 533 men and women in the Federal German Republic from 1955 to 1964 who were detained in hospitals after committing homicide or near-homicide. The authors calculated that such patients are no more, but also no less, dangerous than the rest of the population, and that the policy of treating psychotic or seriously subnormal patients in the community does not expose the public to risk. The book makes important suggestions for the prevention of such disasters by describing the diagnoses, special symptoms and social situations which involve a special risk, especially to close relatives and those with whom the patient is emotionally involved. |
Contents
Questions posed population studied methodology | 47 |
General data | 70 |
Comparative risk of violence in the mentally | 95 |
crime patient comparisons | 105 |
The crime and the victim | 216 |
Qualitative analysis of small diagnostic | 260 |
Summary and discussion | 278 |
data sheets | 336 |
Bibliography | 350 |
Notes | 365 |
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Crimes of Violence by Mentally Abnormal Offenders: A Psychiatric and ... W. Boker,H. Häfner Limited preview - 1982 |
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100 Not known abnormal violent offenders affective psychoses aggressive behaviour alcoholism associated attacks bodily harm cerebral atrophy chronic alcoholism clinical committed compared control group Convicted Offenders crimes of violence criminal cyclothymia danger delusional jealousy delusions depressed offenders depressed patients diagnostic groups difference discharge disorders disturbed endogenous depression epilepsy example extended suicide Federal Statistics findings frequently grievous bodily harm group of mentally homicide hypothesis not refutable included intimate partner jealousy killed Landeck late-acquired brain damage manslaughter marital mental hospital mentally abnormal offenders mentally abnormal violent mentally defective offenders mentally ill motives murder non-offenders non-violent patients Null hypothesis paranoid particularly phrenia Affective population preceding the crime previous history primary family proportion psychiatric hospital recorded risk of violence Schizo schizophrenic offenders sexual showed Significance test six months preceding social Subtotal symptoms syndromes Table thought disorders threats tion Total victims violent and non-violent violent crime violent patients women