Is an offender with mental health problems fully responsible for their offences? Should certain criminal behaviors be treated with incarceration and rehabilitation―or counseling and psychotherapy? Mad or Bad? asks these questions, and more. It is a cutting-edge text that provides a comprehensive introduction to mental health problems and criminal behavior, and considers the most common and effective therapeutic approaches for working with offenders and victims of crime.
Part 1 explores the predominant tensions between forensic and therapeutic agendas;
Part 2 considers how criminal and 'insane' identities and careers may be considered gendered, classed, culturally, and age-dependent experiences, and be related to power and oppression;
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