Crimes of violence by mentally abnormal offenders : a psychiatric and epidemiological study in the Federal German Republic
A detailed and systematic 1973 account of the extent to which mentally abnormal offenders are likely to commit violent crimes, 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.
Print Book, English, cop. 1982
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, cop. 1982
XV, 384 p. ; 24 cm
9780521241366, 0521241367
912351520
List of authors and collaborators; Foreword; Preface; Note on the translation; 1. Introduction: the problem viewed in the light of the psychiatric literature; 2. Previous studies of violence in the mentally abnormal; 3. Questions posed, population studied, methodology; 4. Results I: general data; 5. Results II: overall comparisons of sex, age and diagnosis; 6. Results III: comparative risk of violence in the mentally abnormal and in the control population; 7. Results IV: personality, illness and background of the crime–patient comparisons; 8. Results V: the crime and the victim; 9. Results VI: qualitative analysis of small diagnostic groups; 10. Summary and discussion; Appendix: data sheets; Bibliography; Notes; Name index; Subject index.