Product Description: After the second edition was published (in 1994), a number of changes have taken place, including changes in the law, advances in treatment, and changes in the management of prisons and special hospitals. The book remains essential reading for doctors taking the Membership examination of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, but also will be of interest to general psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, social workers, lawyers, probation officers and criminologists...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text has been generally updated and there are over 20 new sections, including a section on false confessions, multiple homocides, the sexual abuse of children, Munchausen's syndrome by proxy, the role of serotonin in violent behaviour and the value of the reconviction prediction score...read more