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Personality and Dangerousness: Genealogies of Antisocial Personality Disorder

Author: David McCallum
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: personality, disorder, antisocial, genealogies, dangerousness
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2001-10-22
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0521008751
ISBN-13: 9780521008754

Book Description:

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.


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