Forensic assessment of violence risk : a guide for risk assessment and risk management /

Conroy, Mary Alice, 1945-

Forensic assessment of violence risk : a guide for risk assessment and risk management / Mary Alice Conroy & Daniel C. Murrie. - Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2007. - xi, 370 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-352) and index.

Historical overview of risk assessment -- Introducing a broad model for risk assessment -- Risk of what? Defining the referral question -- What do we know overall? Consider normative data and population base rates -- What do we know about individuals like this one? Empirically supported risk and protective factors -- What do we know about this individual? Idiographic factors and the need for individualized assessment -- What can we say about the results of a risk assessment? Risk communication -- From risk assessment to risk management -- Risk assessment of patients with serious mental illness -- Risk assessment with sexual offenders -- Risk assessment with juvenile offenders -- Risk assessment of death penalty defendants.

9780470049334 (cloth) 0470049332 (cloth) 0470049332

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Violence--psychology
Risk Assessment--methods
Risk Management--methods
Forensic Psychiatry--methods

RC569.5.V55 / C665 2007

616.85/82

W 860 / C754f 2007