Female Sex Offenders: Theory, Assessment and Treatment

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His views will, no doubt, be controversial. This is an absorbing book, well written and lucid. Its clarity is borne of the author’s keen sense of the issues and a prodigious knowledge of the philosophical literature concerning morality. I recommend that all forensic clinicians read part or all of its contents, particularly the chapter on Psychopathic personality disorder and Callendar’s doubts regarding its validity as a taxonomic category. Philosophy is not much studied these days; it has been trammelled by its larger scientific cousin. This book and the wider series, ‘International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry’, published by Oxford University Press, make a convincing case that philosophy is of relevance to the current practicing clinician and not just written by dead men about dead things. John Callender has produced a rich and useful torch in the often dark and confusing world of moral responsibility within mental health.