Download or read book Aggression and Dangerousness written by David P. Farrington and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1985 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third and last volume in a series concerned with the contribution of psychiatry and psychology to all aspects of crime, offenders, the law, legal processes, the treatment of offenders and the criminal justice system. The books have given an opportunity to researchers in these fields to review contemporary developments, and for readers to obtain, in a convenient form, an overview in more detail than is possible in journals, of current issues of concern where law, psychology, and psychiatry interact. This particular, book, with its contributions from four of the five continents, deals with the characteristics of aggressive, psychopathic and dangerous offenders, and with methods of dealing with them.