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Rethinking Risk Assessment John Monahan (Henry Grace Doherty Professor of Law, Psychology, and Legal Medicine, School of Law, Henry Grace Doherty Professor of Law, Psychology, and Legal Medicine, School of Law, University of Virginia)

Rethinking Risk Assessment By John Monahan (Henry Grace Doherty Professor of Law, Psychology, and Legal Medicine, School of Law, Henry Grace Doherty Professor of Law, Psychology, and Legal Medicine, School of Law, University of Virginia)

Summary

Rethinking Risk Assessment tells the story of a pioneering investigation that challenges preconceptions about the frequency and nature of violence among persons with mental disorders, and suggests an innovative approach to predicting its occurrence.

Rethinking Risk Assessment Summary

Rethinking Risk Assessment: The MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence by John Monahan (Henry Grace Doherty Professor of Law, Psychology, and Legal Medicine, School of Law, Henry Grace Doherty Professor of Law, Psychology, and Legal Medicine, School of Law, University of Virginia)

Rethinking Risk Assessment tells the story of a pioneering investigation that challenges preconceptions about the frequency and nature of violence among persons with mental disorders, and suggests an innovative approach to predicting its occurrence.

Rethinking Risk Assessment Reviews

"The MacArthur study is set to become the gold standard for research in this area . . . we can only hope that the impressive research reported in this book has the impact it deserves." * The Modern Law Review *

Table of Contents

1: Violence Risk Assessment: The Law and the Science 2: Violence Among Patients in the Community 3: Testing "Criminological" Risk Factors 4: Testing "Clinical" Risk Factors 5: Customizing Risk Assessment 6: Combining Customized Risk Assessment to Produce the Best Estimate of Risk 7: Violence and the Clinician: Assessing and Managing Risk Appendix A. The MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study: Methods Appendix B. Risk Factors and Associations with Violence

Additional information

GOR005288618
9780195138825
0195138821
Rethinking Risk Assessment: The MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence by John Monahan (Henry Grace Doherty Professor of Law, Psychology, and Legal Medicine, School of Law, Henry Grace Doherty Professor of Law, Psychology, and Legal Medicine, School of Law, University of Virginia)
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Oxford University Press Inc
2001-04-19
208
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