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Offline Stephanie

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Why do we ignore the mental health aspects of crime?
« on: December 03, 2014, 04:41:PM »
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Re: Why do we ignore the mental health aspects of crime?
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2014, 05:29:PM »
 I like the remark made by the criminologist------" Lessons will be learnt,but they never are !". Very true.

This was an horrendous attack on a lovely woman whose life was wiped out by a mentally disturbed pupil that only other pupils noticed ?? So nobody else noticed anything " strange " about this boy ?
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« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2014, 05:41:PM »
Following the case, however, there was remarkably little comment about what a personality disorder actually is, how it comes about, whether it is treatable and the circumstances in which it can arise in someone from an apparently "normal" family.

"People are very reluctant to think about the possible impact of family relationships and lives on a young person's development and that those cases could have anything to do with an upbringing," she says.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30190578
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