Maguire, Morgan & Reiner: The Oxford Handbook of Criminology 4e 
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Chapter 16
Which, if any, mentally disordered offenders should be exempt from prosecution?
Has the time come to acknowledge that a sizeable proportion of prisoners will for the foreseeable future continue to be mentally disordered and proper therapeutic provision be made for them within the prison system?
Given that correlation is not the same as causation, what is the relationship between offending behaviour and mental ill-health? (See also Chapters 2, 19)
To what extent are the concepts of personality and criminality definitionally linked? (See also Chapter 2)
Is the concept of dangerousness dangerous? (See also Chapters 3, 29, 31)
Have we been seduced by the notion that risk can be managed through the containment of identifiable individuals, thereby promoting discriminatory treatment? (See also Chapter 29)
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