Full Description
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.
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
