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Extracted from text ... 164 Title: Personality and dangerousness: Genealogies of antisocial personality disorder Author: D. McCallum Date: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0 521 80402 7 (hardback)/0 521 00875 1 (paperback) McCallum's book is a welcome addition to the specialist literature on anti-social personality disorder, mental illness and the problem of predicting dangerousness. McCallum adopts a genealogical perspective of the anti-social personality disorder to provide insight into the difficulty of conceptualising dangerous behaviour. He shows how the concept of dangerousness has been a problem for society and professions such as psychiatry and law, as their expertise was often invoked to predict dangerousness. ..
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