Personality and Dangerousness
Personality and Dangerousness
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Tracing the history of the category of antisocial personality disorder, this study reveals its emergence is linked to particular kinds of governing, rather than simply to advances in the human sciences or a means of social control. David McCallum examines key legal and institutional developments in Australia, the U.K, and the U.S. as well as parallel developments within psychiatry and psychological medicine. Applying a social theoretical analysis to this material, he challenges our assumptions about the formation and control concepts of dangerousness and personality.
- Traces the history of antisocial personality development, looking at legal and institutional developments in Australia, the UK and the US over the last 200 years
- Provides an analysis of how dangerousness is conceived
- Parallels the development of the disciplines of psychiatry and psychological medicine
Reviews & endorsements
"...a valuable sociological history..." American Journal of Sociology
Product details
October 2001Hardback
9780521804028
204 pages
231 × 155 × 18 mm
0.455kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Law, psychiatry and the problem of disorder
- 2. Histories of psychiatry and the asylum
- 3. The borderland patient
- 4. Counting, eugenics, mental hygiene
- 5. The space for personality
- 6. Surfaces of emergence
- 7. Personality and dangerousness.
