Offenders, deviants or patients?

by Herschel A. Prins

Part I Legal and adminstrative frameworks -- 1 Problem areas revisited -- Responsibility (liability) for crime -- 3 Systems of disposal -- Part II Clinical considerations -- 4 Mental disturbance -- 5 Psychopathic disorder : a useful label -- 6 Violence and homicide -- 7 Fire-raising -- 8 Sexual behaviour and misbehviour -- 9 Will they do it again? -- 10 Training : enhancing understanding -- 11 Concluding comments.