Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Criminal Justice System: A Guide to Understanding Suspects, Defendants and Offenders with Autism | | Keménykötésű

Áruház

ENbook.hu

Márka

Routledge

pThis book focuses on autism spectrum disorder ASD in the criminal justice system. Rather than being the perpetrators of offending behaviour, individuals with ASD are more likely to be the victims of crime. However, there is nevertheless a small subset of individuals with ASD who do offend, and this book provides an in-depth understanding of how certain features of ASD may provide the context of vulnerability to engaging in a number of types of offending behaviours. ppChapters focus on arson or fire-setting cybercrime e.g., hacking online sexual offending such as the viewing of indecent child imagery offline sexual offending violent crime stalking terroristic behaviour including radicalisation and extremism bestiality or zoophilia and also extreme violence such as mass shooting and serial homicide. This book also outlines the ways in which a defendant with ASD may present in court and how they may exhibit behaviour which could be misinterpreted and perceived negatively, leading to an u

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