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Madness and Crime

By: Philip Bean

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Hardcover | 1 January 2007 | Edition Number 1

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This book provides an authoritative and highly readable review of the relationship between madness and crime by one of the leading authorities in the field. The book is divided into four parts, each essay focusing on selected features of madness which have relevance to contemporary society. The aim is not to provide a comprehensive review of the literature, or a definitive statement about where we stand, but to reflect on central elements of a field that continues to perplex and challenge, drawing upon a range of disciplines and approaches. Part 1 is about madness itself, exploring three main models - cognitive, statistical, and emotional. Part 2 discusses madness, genius and their interrelationship. Part 3 is about the much neglected area of compulsion, an issue that has largely disappeared from public debate. The mad may have moved from victim to violator, yet fundamental questions remain - in particular how to justify compulsory detention, and who should undertake the process? The answers to these questions have sociological, ethical and jurisprudential elements, and cannot just be resolved by reference to medical authorities. Part 4 is about the links between madness and crime - focusing less on the question and nature of criminal responsibilty and the various defences that go with this, more on the links between madness and crime and which particular crimes are linked with which types of disorder

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Some thoughts on the nature of madness	p. 1
Introduction and overview	p. 1
Madness and the disease model	p. 4
An empirical theory of madness	p. 10
Empirical, statistical and emotional theories compared	p. 25
An assessment of empiricist theories of madness	p. 35
Madness as genius, and madness as an aid to creativity	p. 47
Restraining the mad: justifications for compulsory detention	p. 61
Detaining the mad	p. 61
De jure and de facto detentions	p. 68
A note on liberty	p. 77
Mental health law and formal law	p. 82
Typical legal justifications and their limitations	p. 86
The impact of compulsion	p. 93
Who does the detaining?	p. 96
Paternalism v. autonomy	p. 105
Summary and conclusion	p. 108
Madness and crime	p. 123
Some methodological problems in the madness and crime nexus	p. 123
An overview of the problem	p. 127
Psychiatric services in the penal system: an overview	p. 131
A model for examining the links between madness (mental disorder) and crime	p. 139
Comments on future research	p. 174
Summary and conclusion	p. 177
Subject Index	p. 185
Author Index	p. 189
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