1st Edition
Will They Do it Again? Risk Assessment and Management in Criminal Justice and Psychiatry
By Herschel Prins
Copyright 1999
190 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Focus in the media on the risks posed to ordinary people has become increasingly strong in recent years - particularly on those risks popularly perceived to be posed by the mentally ill. But how justified is this concern? How do we best manage so-called dangerous people? In Will They Do It Again? Herschel Prins considers the issue of public protection within a broad context of risk in society... Read more
1 Understanding uncertainty 2 Legal and administrative aspects 3 Serious mental disturbance and violence 4 With the (doubtful) benefit of hindsight 5 Improving practice 6 Epilogue
Biography
Herschel Prins is a Professor at the Midlands Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Loughborough and Visiting Professor, Nottingham Trent University.
