Forensic Assessment of Violence Risk: A Guide for Risk Assessment and Risk Management

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Forensic Assessment of Violence Risk: A Guide for Risk Assessment and Risk Management

Author(s): Mary Alice Conroy, Daniel C. Murrie

Published Online: 9 JAN 2012 10:38AM EST

Print ISBN: 9780470049334

Online ISBN: 9781118269671

DOI: 10.1002/9781118269671

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Forensic Assessment of Violence Risk: A Guide for Risk Assessment and Risk Management provides both a summary of research to date and an integrated model for mental health professionals conducting risk assessments, one of the most high-stakes evaluations forensic mental health professionals perform.

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xi)

    2. Chapter 1

      Historical Overview of Risk Assessment (pages 1–15)

    3. Chapter 2

      Introducing a Broad Model for Risk Assessment (pages 16–33)

    4. Chapter 3

      Risk of What?: Defining the Referral Question (pages 34–44)

    5. Chapter 4

      What Do We Know Overall?: Consider Normative Data and Population Base Rates (pages 45–66)

    6. Chapter 5

      What Do We Know about Individuals Like This One?: Empirically Supported Risk and Protective Factors (pages 67–82)

    7. Chapter 6

      What Do We Know about This Individual?: Idiographic Factors and the Need for Individualized Assessment (pages 83–98)

    8. Chapter 7

      What Can We Say about the Results of a Risk Assessment?: Risk Communication (pages 99–134)

    9. Chapter 8

      From Risk Assessment to Risk Management (pages 135–152)

    10. Chapter 9

      Risk Assessment of Patients with Serious Mental Illness (pages 153–178)

    11. Chapter 10

      Risk Assessment with Sexual Offenders (pages 179–201)

    12. Chapter 11

      Risk Assessment with Juvenile Offenders (pages 202–234)

    13. Chapter 12

      Risk Assessment of Death Penalty Defendants (pages 235–253)

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      Epilogue (pages 255–257)

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      Appendix A: Risk Assessment Instruments (pages 259–268)

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      Appendix B: Sample Risk Assessment Reports (pages 269–307)

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      References (pages 309–352)

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      Index (pages 353–370)

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