Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-188) and index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Personality and Dangerousness traces the history of the category of antisocial personality disorder, showing its emergence to be linked to particular kinds of governing, rather than simply to advances in the human sciences or as a means of social control.
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Title
Personality and dangerousness.
International Standard Book Number
0521804027
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Antisocial personality disorders-- Etiology.
Antisocial personality disorders-- History.
Dangerously mentally ill-- Government policy.
Antisocial Personality Disorder-- etiology.
Antisocial Personality Disorder-- history.
Criminal Law.
Dangerous Behavior.
Violence-- legislation & jurisprudence.
Malades mentaux dangereux-- Politique gouvernementale.