Homicide: A Psychiatric Perspective - Hardcover

Malmquist, Carl P., M.D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0880486902 ISBN 13: 9780880486903

Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc, 1996

Synopsis

Homicide: A Psychiatric Perspective is a reference book for professionals dealing with violence, murder, and suicide, and for others concerned about the level of homicidal violence in American society.
Homicide is routinely discussed from statistical or cultural or sociological perspectives, with the main emphasis given to the frequency of people being killed. This book - rooted in clinical psychiatry - considers those who do the killing.
Discussions of different diagnoses are used to illustrate how clinical psychiatric conditions have their own special vulnerabilities for violence. Problems of epidemiology, a discussion of the problems of prediction, and the legal system's differing goals are also included. The author, a psychiatric consultant for the District Court of Minneapolis, personally evaluated over 500 people who have committed a homicide.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Most professional books on the subject of homicide convey a criminological or legal standpoint. Homicide: A Psychiatric Perspective complements those approaches by offering a clinical understanding unique in the literature, combining psychiatric knowledge of homicidal behavior with actual case material. Dr. Malmquist draws on his extensive background in forensic psychiatry and consultancy experience in hundreds of murder cases, providing insight into such key concerns as epidemiology, the ongoing difficulty of predicting homicidal behavior in psychotic individuals, and the contrasting viewpoints of psychiatry and the legal system.

New to this edition are insights into recent homicide trends such as sexual and serial murders, school killings, homicide among preadolescents, stalking, murder by health care personnel, and close-combat killings in the military. Statistical data on epidemiology have been updated, recent cases have been added, and the latest legal decisions are reflected to make this book as timely as it is authoritative -- an essential reference not only for mental health professionals but also for anyone working in criminal law.

About the Author:

Carl P. Malmquist M.D., M.S. has served as a professor at both the medical and law schools of the University of Minnesota and the University of Michigan.

About this edition

• Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0880486902
• ISBN 13: 9780880486903
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 395