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Some years ago when Professor Mednick, one of the distinguished contributors to the Advanced Study Institute, was carrying out research on creativity, he developed a measure known as the Remote Associations Test. It entailed providing respondents with two apparently unrelated words and asking them to generate ideas concerning possible connections between them. In making this response I feel as if I have a task of that kind: to attempt to identify links between two large areas of research which have remained surprisingly separate and are rarely considered conjointly—the treatment of, respectively, mentally disordered and non-disordered offenders. In what follows I hope to demonstrate that these areas are far from remote and that there is much to be gained by conceptualizing them in an interrelated, indeed integrated, way.
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Mcguire, J. (2000). Commentary. In: Hodgins, S. (eds) Violence among the Mentally III. NATO Science Series, vol 90. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4130-7_19
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