Clinical Assessment of Dangerousness (eBook, PDF)

Empirical Contributions
Redaktion: Pinard, Georges-Franck

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

When people are victimized by violent crime, the general public assumes that the victim could have been spared if the perpetrator had been identified as potentially dangerous by mental health agents. Yet prediction of dangerousness is an inexact science and depends upon many complex factors. This book provides a thorough and clear description of research findings in order to help clinicians make sound decisions concerning their clients’ dangerousness. The book covers a broad spectrum of violent behavior as well as crucial issues such as biological factors, domestic violence, and the influence of alcohol in violent behavior. The book is divided into the following sections: Basic Issues in Violence Research, Mental Health Issues and Dangerousness, Family Issues and Dangerousness, Individual Characteristics and Dangerousness. It will serve as an important reference book which covers up-to-date research and provides views on future directions for research and practice in this increasingly valuable field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511007286
• Artikelnr.: 38207217

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors; Prologue Paul S. Appelbaum; Part I. Introduction: 1. Clinical
assessment of dangerousness: an overview of the literature Linda Pagani and
Georges-F. Pinard; Part II. Basic Issues in Violence Research: 2. Biology,
development, and dangerousness Elizabeth J. Susman and Jordan W.
Finkelstein; 3. The development of physical aggression during childhood and
the prediction of later dangerousness Richard E. Tremblay; 4. Predicting
adult official and self-reported violence David P. Farrington; Part III.
Mental Health Issues and Dangerousness: 5. Major mental disorder and
violence: epidemiology and risk assessment John Monahan; 6. Axis II
disorders and dangerousness Kenneth Tardiff; 7. Recidivistic violent
behaviour and axis I and II disorders Jari Tiihonen; Part IV. Family Issues
and Dangerousness: 8. Risk assessment for intimate partner homicide
Jacquelyn C. Campbell, Phyllis Sharps and Nancy Glass; 9. Parents at risk
of filicide Maureen Marks; 10. Parricide Charles P. Ewing; Part V.
Individual Characteristics and Dangerousness: 11. Alcohol and dangerousness
Joan McCord; 12. Violence and substance abuse Philip Bean; 13. Threats,
stalking and criminal harassment J. Reid Meloy; Part VI. Conclusion: 14.
Discussion and clinical commentary on issues in the assessment and
prediction of dangerousness Georges-F. Pinard and Linda Pagani; Index.