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In the aftermath of the Port Arthur shootings, Dunblane or the schoolyard killings in America, communities try to come to terms with private and public trauma and there is a need to understand what kind of person can commit such terrible acts. The problem of how to understand dangerousness often centres on the role of the mental health and criminal justice systems and it is from the intersection of these two institutions that the categorisation of dangerous persons has emerged. This 2001 book traces the history of the category of antisocial personality disorder and shows how it is linked to particular kinds of governing. It examines key legal and institutional developments in Australia, the UK and the US and also parallel developments within psychiatry and psychological medicine. Applying a social theoretical analysis to this material, McCallum challenges our assumptions about the formation and control concepts of dangerousness and personality

In 2009-2010, The Squiggle Foundation, whose aim is to stimulate interest in the work of Donald Winnicott, organized a series of lectures on the theme of "the antisocial tendency". These lectures are offered here to the wider public much as they were originally given. The speakers, each one an established figure in child care policy or in the residential and therapeutic management of disaffected youngsters, reflect on society's changing attitudes towards antisocial behaviour and its manifestations over the past half century. They consider how altered childrearing practices, the greater incidence of family break-up, and the increasing part played by central government in the determination of child care policies, have contributed to a shift towards the more punitive attitudes towards "wayward youth" prevalent today. Brief, pointed, and accessible, these lectures address topics of contemporary social concern by identifying some of the underlying questions to be asked regarding the child, the family, and society in a mass-communication and mass-organized environment.

Chemical Dependency and Antisocial Personality Disorder gives you the information and clinical skills necessary to assess and evaluate persons suffering from substance abuse and/or antisocial personality disorders and details how you can develop effective psychotherapy and treatment strategies. From its helpful pages that contain diagnostic criteria and clinical interviewing and assessment guidelines, you learn to accurately diagnose substance use and antisocial personality disorders. The book also provides you with the historical and clinical perspectives of such disorders and their epidemiol

En el ámbito de la Psicología Jurídica y, teniendo como referencia la elaboración del informe psicológico, nuestra hipótesis de trabajo se centra en demostrar la mayor eficacia de las técnicas proyectivas con respecto a las técnicas psicométricas en el diagnóstico de la personalidad antisocial. El presente estudio analiza los trastornos antisociales de la personalidad, referidos específicamente por una muestra de 105 delincuentes internados en diferentes Centros Penitenciarios y contrastados con el grupo control de 111 jóvenes no-delincuentes realizando actualmente el Servicio Militar. A ambos grupos se les administraron el Cuestionario Factorial de Personalidad de R. B. Cattell (16 PF) y del Test de Rorschach y Láminas Proyectivas. Entre los resultados obtenidos hemos de constatar una mayor fiabilidad y validez de las técnicas proyectivas así como una mayor riqueza de información especialmente en los contenidos de Agresividad Manifiesta, Sangre, Sexual, y de Morbilidad (MOR). ; In the area of Legal Psychology and, having as reference the elaboration of a psychological report, our working hypothesis is centered in demonstrating the efficiency of the projective methods with respect to the techniques psychometric methods in the diagnosis of the antisocial personality. The study analyses the antisocial disorders of the personality, referred specifically by a sample of 105 delinquents confined in different Penitenciary Centres and contrasted with the group control of 111 non-delinquent youths doing actually the Military Service. To both groups it was administered the Factorial Personality Questionnaire of R. B. Cattell (16 PF) and RorschachŽs test and projective Plates. Among the results obtained, we have to verify a greater reliability and validity of the projective methods as well as a greater richeness of information especially in the contents of an obvius aggressiveness, Blood, Sexual, and Morbility (MOR).

"The Psychology of Criminal and Antisocial Behavior: Victim and Offenders Perspectives is not just another formulaic book on forensic psychology. Rather, it opens up new areas of enquiry to busy practitioners and academics alike, exploring topics using a practical approach to social deviance that is underpinned by frontier research findings, policy, and international trends. From the relationship between psychopathology and crime, and the characteristics of catathymia, compulsive homicide, sadistic violence, and homicide victimology, to adult sexual grooming, domestic violence, and honor killings, experts in the field provide insight into the areas of homicide, violent crime, and sexual predation. In all, more than 20 internationally recognized experts in their fields explore these and other topic, also including discussing youth offending, love scams, the psychology of hate, public threat assessment, querulence, stalking, arson, and cults. This edited work is an essential reference for academics and practitioners working in any capacity that intersects with offenders and victims of crime, public policy, and roles involving the assessment, mitigation, and investigation of criminal and antisocial behavior. It is particularly ideal for those working in criminology, psychology, law and law enforcement, public policy, and for social science students seeking to explore the nature and character of criminal social deviance."--