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Title Serious violent offenders : sentencing, psychiatry, and law reform : proceedings of a conference held 29-31 October 1991 / edited by Sally-Anne Gerull and William Lucas
Published Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, [1993]
©1993

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Description 269 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series Conference proceedings series, 1034-5086 ; no. 19
Conference proceedings (Australian Institute of Criminology) ; no. 19
Contents Personality disorder, the criminal justice system and the mental health system / David Neal -- Coping with the highly dangerous : issues of principle raised by preventative detention / C.R. Williams -- Provisions for violent offenders : perpetuating myths or confronting challenges / Margaret Ray, Leanne Craze -- 'Dangerous persons' : to be gaoled for what they are, or what they may do, not for what they have done / Ron Merkel -- The politics of dangerousness / Deidre Greig -- Can the Victorian Parliament abolish fundamental rights? / Bryan Keon-Cohen -- Indeterminate sentences and dangerousness / Ian Campbell -- The principles of sentencing violent offenders : towards a more structured approach / Ivan Potas -- The case for due process in reviewable sentences / Peter Svensson -- Community safety and serious violent offenders / Paul Mullaly -- Managing violent offenders in the correctional setting : a coordinated approach / Peter Harmsworth -- Managing serious violent offenders in South Australian prisons : control, consensus or responsibility / John Dawes -- Independent and intimate : the Serious Offenders Review Board, New South Wales / Graham Egan -- Canberra's first forensic institute for rehabilitation services and training / Hugh Veness -- A relapse prevention approach to reducing aggressive behaviour / Peter Prisgrove -- Psychiatric treatment of violent offenders in prisons / Fredrick Stamp -- A profile of forensic patients in New South Wales and an assessment of the role of the Mental Health Tribunal in effecting their release / Robert Hayes [and others] -- Review for release : the use and misuse of psychiatric opinion / William Lucas -- Assessing the dangerousness and treatability of sex offenders in the community / William Glaser -- The release of serious violent offenders and community safety / Don Thompson, Astrid Birgden, Marlene Morison
Notes CIP confirmed
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Also available in an online version
Subject Cameroonian literature (English) -- History and criticism.
Criminal psychology -- Congresses.
Insanity (Law) -- Australia -- Jurisprudence -- Congresses
Insanity (Law) -- Australia -- Congresses.
Prisoners -- Australia -- Congresses.
Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- Australia -- Congresses.
Violent crimes -- Australia -- Congresses.
Violent offenders -- Australia -- Congresses.
SUBJECT Cameroon http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81035273 -- In literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011414
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Gerull, Sally-Anne.
Lucas, W. E. (William Ewart), 1933-
Australian Institute of Criminology.
LC no. 94171864
ISBN 3927510203