Humanities & Social Sciences
Insanity Crimes
by Dr.Ho Mei Yee Robyn
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Dr. Ho Mei Yee, an authoritative forensic psychiatrist, takes you inside the minds of criminals and explores the psychiatric reasons for a person’s drastic change in personality, which eventually lead to criminal behaviors. Volume 1 attempts to unveil the mystery and myths shrouding forensic psychiatry through 6 real cases.
法醫精神科權威何美怡醫生，帶領你潛入犯罪者的內心，探索為何人會性情劇變，跨越法律的底線，走向瘋狂的犯罪之路。
想與子女同歸於盡的單親媽媽、把僱主開膛破肚的恐怖傭人、把情婦刺殺卻試圖脫身的男人……周旋於失常罪犯之間，法醫精神科何美怡醫生以六宗改編自真實案例的故事為切入點，揭開「精神科X法律」的神秘面紗，探尋正常與失常、理智與瘋狂之間，最模糊的界線。
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Author Biography
Dr.Ho Mei Yee Robyn
After graduating from medical school in London, United Kingdom, Dr. Ho started her psychiatric training at the Maudsley and South London National Health Services Trust. She returned to Hong Kong in 2005 and continued her training at Castle Peak Hospital. She became a Specialist in Psychiatry in 2008. She attained a Master in Social Sciences (Criminology) in 2010.
Dr. Ho has a special interest in Forensic Psychiatry all along. From 2005 until August 2012, Dr. Ho worked in the only Department of Forensic Psychiatry in Hong Kong. She has assessed and managed over 2500 forensic psychiatric patients both in Castle Peak Hospital and Siu Lam Psychiatric Centre. She has written more than 2000 psychiatric reports for court. She was appointed as an expert witness for numerous trials in Magistrate, District and High Courts of HKSAR.
Dr. Ho’s research interest is in violent risk assessment and management of psychiatric patients. She is the first person to introduce structured professional judgment (SPJ) violent risk assessment tools in Hong Kong and to validate internationally the most researched SPJ violent risk assessment tool, HCR-20, as well as another SPJ tool, START, in a Chinese population. The research on the HCR-20 tool received a financial grant from the Food and Health Bureau. She was the principal investigator for Hong Kong in international research, involving 16 countries including Australia, Canada, U.K., and USA, assessing the practice of violent risk assessment and the use of violent risk assessment tools. She was one of the core members in violence assessment and management working group for the Department of Forensic Psychiatry and was the principle trainer for these tools in the Department of Forensic Psychiatry and had trained over 100 mental health professionals in using these tools. The Hospital Authority invited her as a key speaker at the Management of Violence and Aggression Trainer’s Refresher Course for around 75 psychiatric registered nurses who were already active trainers of the Management of Violence Programme, in March 2015.
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- Publisher Enrich Publishing
- Publication Date February 2018
- Orginal LanguageChinese complex
- ISBN/Identifier 9789888395644
- Publication Country or regionHongkong
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 118 HKD
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language Title失常罪──法醫精神科醫生的代告白
- Original Language Authors何美怡醫生
- Dimensions210x170 mm
- Illustration2C
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