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A Danger to Themselves and to Others
Herscbel Prins is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Work, Leicester University, where among other functions, he has responsibility for organizing the psychiatry teaching. He has worked as a probation officer, psychiatric social worker, probation inspector and has taught in further education and more recently in the university sector. He is the author of a large number of articles and of the following books: Social Work and Medical Practice (with Marion B. H. Whyte), Pergamon Press, 1972. Criminal Behaviour, Pitmans, 1973. Signs of Stress (with J. Wallace McCulloch), Collins, 1975. One of his special areas of interest is the relationship between mental disorder and criminal behaviour
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Some account is given of a small group of offender/patients defined as dangerous or potentially dangerous. Reasons are put forward in an attempt to explain an apparent reluctance to work with such clients and the unease that often occurs when so doing. It is suggested that an approach may be required to such offender/patients which differs in some respects from more traditional modes of treatment. Emphasis is placed upon the need for careful observation of material facts and events in the lives of such clients in addition to the careful observation of the manifestations of feelings and attitudes which may give premonition of dangerous or potentially dangerous behaviour
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