Violent Offenders

Understanding and Assessment
Herausgeber: Pietz, Christina A; Mattson, Curtis A

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Produktbeschreibung

Violent Offenders addresses the numerous challenges and issues facing individuals working with this population and provides broad coverage regarding specific groups of violent perpetrators.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780199917297
• ISBN-10: 0199917299
• Artikelnr.: 47869605

Autorenporträt

Christina A. Pietz, PhD, ABPP, is a Forensic Psychologist at the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, MO, and at Burrell Behavioral Health. She has completed psychological evaluations for federal courts throughout the United States, and she has testified as an expert witness in federal court, state court, and military court. Dr. Pietz is also Director of Forensic Training at the Forest Institute of Professional Psychology and Past President of the American Board of Forensic Psychology. Currently, she serves on the American Board of Psychology Board of Trustees as the representative for the American Board of Forensic Psychology. Curtis A. Mattson, PsyD, is a Clinical Psychologist with Burrell Behavioral Health. At Burrell, Dr. Mattson is a member of the research team where he is currently involved in multiple research endeavors in the areas of neuropsychology, substance abuse, psychopathy, and personality assessment.

Inhaltsangabe

* About the Editors
* Contributors
* Section I. Overview and Constructs of Violence
* 1. Psychological Perspectives of Violence
* Melanie Schettler
* 2. Antisocial Behavior among Children in Poverty: Understanding
Environmental Effects in Daily Life
* Michael A. Russell and Candice L. Odgers
* 3. Substance Abuse and Violence
* Curtis A. Mattson and Christina A. Pietz
* 4. Major Mental Disorders and Violence
* Laura S. Guy and Kevin S. Douglas
* 5. Aggressive Externalizing Disorders: Conduct Disorder, Antisocial
Personality Disorder, and Psychopathy
* Laura E. Drislane, Noah C. Venables, and Christopher J. Patrick
* Section II. Special Offender Populations
* 6. Juvenile Homicide: Trends, Correlates, Causal Factors, and
Outcomes
* Kathleen M. Heide
* 7. Physically and Sexually Violent Females
* Geoffrey R. McKee and R. Gregg Dwyer
* 8. Men Who Kill
* Bethany K. Walters and Eric W. Hickey
* 9. Psychological Factors in Intimate Partner Violence
* Donald Dutton and Christie Tetreault
* 10. Perpetrators of Sexual Violence: Demographics, Assessments,
Interventions
* Alix M. McLearen, Ivonne E. Bazerman, and Katherine Bracken-Minor
* 11. Under the Color of Authority: Police Officers as Violent
Offenders
* David M. Corey and Casey O. Stewart
* 12. Institutional Violence Risk: Theory, Assessment, and Management
* Daniel J. Neller and Michael J. Vitacco
* 13. Youth Gangs: An Overview of Key Findings and Directions for the
Future
* Terrance J. Taylor and J. Michael Vecchio
* 14. Understanding Terrorists
* Randy Borum
* Section III. Evaluative Approach and Special Considerations
* 15. Legal, Clinical and Scientific Foundations of Violence Risk
Assessment
* David F. Mrad and Daniel J. Neller
* 16. Use of Assessment Measures for the Evaluation of Future Risk
* Chad A. Brinkley
* 17. The Structured Professional Judgment Approach to Violence Risk
Assessment and Management: Why it is Useful, How to Use it, and its
Empirical Support
* Kevin S. Douglas and Henrik Belfrage
* 18. Assessing Facets of Personality and Psychopathology in Violent
Offenders
* Dustin B. Wygant, Kathryn C. Applegate, and Tina D. Wall
* 19. Assessing malingering in violent offenders
* Holly A. Miller
* 20. Assessment of Neurophysiological and Neuropsychological Bases for
Violence
* Rachel Fazio and Robert L. Denney
* 21. Violence: Psychiatric Assessment and Intervention
* Charles Scott, Philip J. Resnick, and William Newman
* 22. Ethical Considerations and Professional Posture
* Kimberly Larson, Robert Kinscherff, and Stacey Goldstein-Dwyer
* 23. Conducting Research with Special Populations
* Gianni Pirelli and Patricia A. Zapf
* Index