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This selection of essays asks rather than answers questions. It is divided into five sections which explore various areas of research into the criminal justice system and the mentally disordered. The first section aims to examine the nature of the relationship between offending and mental disorder, in essence, how much is causation, how much is correlation, and what consequences follow? Do the mentally disordered deserve their just measure of punishment, or alternatively, can the justice process itself be therapeutic to those with such needs?

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• Mental Disorder and Crime - Causation, Correlation and Consequences: Cesare Lombroso (1835-1907)
• John Stuart Mill on the liberty of the mentally ill
• Criminal behaviour and mental disorder
• Mental abnormality and criminality - an uncertain relationship
• Mental disorder, intellectual deficiency and crime: evidence from a birth cohort
• The mentally disordered offender: a call for thought
• The humanitarian theory of punishment
• Putting mental health into mental health law - therapeutic jurisprudence
• Methodological and Conceptual Problems - Conflicting Legal and Historical Models: Psychiatric, psychological and legal models of Man
• Reason, emotion and criminal responsibility
• Jealousy: The pathology of passion
• Assessing mental disorder in the criminal justice system: feasibility versus clinical accuracy
• Madness and crime: criminology versus psychiatry
• Aspects of Process: Police as street corner psychiatrist: managing the mentally ill
• Mentally disordered offenders: finding a focus for diversion
• Mentally disordered suspects in the criminal justice system
• Insanity and fitness to stand trial in Canada and England: a comparative study of recent developments
• A rationale for infanticide laws
• Sentencing the partly mad and partly bad: the case of the hospital order in England and Wales
• The transfer of sentenced prisoners to hospital 1960-1983
• Point prevalence of mental disorder in unconvicted male prisoners in England and Wales
• Treatment needs of prisoners with psychiatric disorders
• The Ethics of Forensic Psychiatry - Should Psychiatrists Engage with the Criminal Courts?: Mental health professionals and the courts: the ethics of expertise
• Revisiting the parable: truth without consequences
• The role of psychiatric evidence in passing 'longer than normal' sentences
• Dangerous offenders and the morality of protective sentencing
• Dangerousness/Psychopathic Disorder and the Prediction of Violence: About the concept of the 'dangerous individual' in 19th-century legal psychiatry
• Assessing dangerousness in criminals
• Psychopathic personality: a most elusive category
• Mental disorder and violent behaviour: perceptions and evidence
• Detection of 'psychopathic disorder patients' in special hospitals: critical issues
• The dimensions of dangerousness revisited: assessing forensic predictions about violence
• Assessing evil
• Name index