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  title info:
    title: Monstrous Crimes and the Failure of Forensic Psychiatry
  name:
    name part: Douard, John.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Schultz, Pamela D.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 200 p. online resource.
  abstract: The metaphor of the monster or predator—usually a sexual predator, drug dealer in areas frequented by children, or psychopathic murderer—is a powerful framing device in public discourse about how the criminal justice system should respond to serious violent crimes. The cultural history of the monster reveals significant features of the metaphor that raise questions about the extent to which justice can be achieved in both the punishment of what are regarded as "monstrous crimes" and the treatment of those who commit such crimes. This volume is the first to address the connections between the history of the monster metaphor, the 19th century idea of the criminal as monster, and the 20th century conception of the psychopath: the new monster. The book addresses, in particular, the ways in which the metaphor is used to scapegoat certain categories of crimes and criminals for anxieties about our own potential for deviant, and, indeed, dangerous interests. These interests have long been found to be associated with the fascination people have for monsters in most cultures, including the West. The book concludes with an analysis of the role of forensic psychiatrists and psychologists in representing criminal defendants as psychopaths, or persons with certain personality disorders. As psychiatry and psychology have transformed bad behavior into mad behavior, these institutions have taken on the legal role of helping to sort out the most dangerous among us for preventive "treatment" rather than carceral "punishment.".
  note: by John Douard, Pamela D. Schultz.
  subject:
    topic: Law
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Psychiatry
  subject:
    topic: Law
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Personality
  subject:
    topic: Social psychology
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Law
  subject:
    topic: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History
  subject:
    topic: Psychiatry
  subject:
    topic: Law and Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Personality and Social Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  classification: K201-487
  classification: B65
  classification: K140-165
  classification: 340.1
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 53
  identifier: 9789400752795
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5279-5
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    record creation date: 121116
    record change date: 20151120170856.0
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