Violence Risk: Assessment and Management
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book provides background and information to mental health professionals working in forensic settings on release decision making, with a particular focus on violent offenders. The emphasis is on how best to achieve the safe release of individuals from...
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This book provides background and information to mental health professionals working in forensic settings on release decision making, with a particular focus on violent offenders. The emphasis is on how best to achieve the safe release of individuals from psychiatric hospitals and prisons in a way that protects society while avoiding the undue restriction of individuals.Each chapter is on a specific topic such as law, risk, diagnosis, evidence and assessment tools and includes chapter summaries and case illustrations. This second edition will bring the material up-to-date, and enlarge the section on risk variables. A new section on risk management has been added. The legal section looks at examples from different legal systems giving the book a more international appeal, and the DSM influence will be lessened for the same reasons. Focus on violent offenders Gives overview of the risk assessment process Includes case illustrations and chapter summaries for ease of use
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Violence Risk: Assessment and Management “
About the Authors.List of Contributors.Foreword.Preface.Acknowledgments.1 Laws.2 Philosophies.3 Predictions.4 Errors.5 Disorders.Childhoods.Psychoses.Moods.Substances.Impulses.Perversions.Personalities.Concussions.6 Psychopaths.7 Studies.8 Baserates.9 Factors.10 Debates.11 Guides.12 Competitions.13 Sex Offenders (R. Karl Hanson).14 Spousal Assaulters (P. Randall Kropp).15 Interventions.16 Transitions (Mary-Lou Martin).17 Teams.18 Communications.19 Experts.20 Conclusions.Questions.References.Index.
Autoren-Porträt von Christopher Webster, Stephen J. Hucker
Professor Christopher Websteris a mental health research & training consultant in Toronto, Ontario. He holds clinical-academic appointments as a Senior Research Consultant in the Forensic Program at St. Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton and as Professor of Psychiatry in the Forensic Division of the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University in Hamilton. In addition, he is also Senior Research Consultant with Earlscourt Child and Family Centre in Toronto. He is Professor Emeritus and past Chair of the Department of Psychology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.Professor Stephen Hucker's professional activities include most areas involving the interface of Psychiatry and the Law. He has acted frequently as a consultant to federal and provincial governments and is often called upon to testify as an expert witness in civil and criminal legal cases across Canada and the United States. In 1998 the Canadian Academy of Psychiatry and the Law honoured him with the Bruno Cormier Award for distinguished contributions to forensic psychiatry in Canada.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Christopher Webster , Stephen J. Hucker
- 2007, 224 Seiten, Maße: 23 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 0470027495
- ISBN-13: 9780470027493
Sprache:
Englisch
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