Handbook

This course will cover the following material: alcohol and drugs; legislation in Australia; alcohol and crime; unsocial and criminal activities and alcohol; drugs and criminal behaviours; the psychiatry of substance abuse; treatment and control: drugs and alcohol; alcohol as a causal criminogenic factor; alcohol and crime: the problem in Australia; the treatment of alcohol abuse/dependence in Australia; arson; shoplifting; kidnapping, abduction and child stealing; hysteria, malingering, pseudologia fantastica, Ganser syndrome, prison psychosis and Munchausen's syndrome; stalkers; morbid jealousy, the delusion of infidelity and de Clerambault syndrome; mental disorder and dangerous driving; pathological gambling; psychiatry, ethnicity and crime.