John A Liebert MD, William J Birnes Jd

Psychiatric Criminology

A Roadmap for Rapid Assessment

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses the need to recognize the psychiatric component of criminological issues and the methodology of dealing with it on a practical as well as academic basis. It provides a roadmap for training in rapid assessment built on evidence-based emergency psychiatry protocols.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 405
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 930g
• ISBN-13: 9781498714174
• ISBN-10: 149871417X
• Artikelnr.: 44166566

Autorenporträt

John A. Liebert, MD, William J. Birnes, JD, PhD

Inhaltsangabe

Through a lens darkly. A brief history of managing the mentally ill. The
misleading statistics of violence and crime. The drivers of
violence-related crime statistics. The Tarasoff Decision. The importance of
informed consent. Police and psychiatric patient encounters. Protecting our
greatest natural resource: Our youth in schools. Special problems of our
veterans. Corrections psychiatry. Special problems of the homeless. Role of
occupational psychiatry for frontline public safety and health officers.
Innovations in psychiatric criminology. Special forensic issues. Suicidal
pilots in the aviation industry. Prevention in the era of optimized patient
flow, criminalization of serious neuropsychiatric disease and anemic
occupational and student health services. The terrorist and the suicide
cult.