This brief text is a good introduction to the area for those who know little or nothing about it, and it will be useful to those working in the field, as an accessible summary of work to date. * British Journal of Psychiatry * Psychopathology and Violent Crime has much merit and should be on the shelves of all psychiatrists who are working in the prison system. The quality of authorship and editing is also excellent.... I can heartily recommend this volume and do commend the publisher on the new format, as the new volume fits quite nicely in briefcase or pocketbook. * JAMA * This is a very good book that will survive after reading as a reference source. It deserves a good run... I am glad to have this one on my desk rather than on my shelf. * Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine * This short and easily digested monograph... provides a useful... overview of some aspects of psychiatry's current understanding of the relationship between psychopathology and violence.... [T]his book provides a very helpful overview of the state of the art, circa 1998. * The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease *
Andrew E. Skodol, M.D., is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Director of the Department of Personality Studies at New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York, New York.
Introduction to the review of psychiatry series. Violent crime and axis I psychopathology. The personalities of murderers: The Importance of Psychopathy and Sadism. Axis II disorders and motivation for serious criminal behavior. Biology of aggression: relevance to crime. Psychopathology, crime, and law. Index.