Essential Writings in Violence Risk Assessment and Management

Essential Writings in Violence Risk Assessment and Management has been created to help mental health and correctional professionals—both those established in practice and those still in training—to navigate the growing body of literature in the field. The journal articles and book chapters in this collection were not chosen because they were the most arcane and obscure articles we could locate. On the contrary, we selected papers that provided the best overview of the field, so as to be relevant to a wide cross-section of people interested in the field, including clinicians, lawyers, judges, law enforcement officials, health and correctional administrators and journalists.

 

Table of Contents

In Memory

In Appreciation

Acknowledgments

A Message from the Honourable Douglas H. Carruthers, QC

Foreword

About the Editors

Preface

I The Historical Shift from “Dangerousness” to Violence Risk Assessment

Introduction

1 Assessing Dangerousness in Criminals
P.D. Scott

2 Dangerousness: Conceptual, Prediction and Public Policy Issues: Technology, Guidelines, and Training
Saleem A. Shah

3 Improving the Clinical Practice of Violence Risk Assessment
Randy Borum

4 The Canadian Contribution to Violence Risk Assessment: History and Implications for Current Psychiatric Practice
Hy Bloom, Christopher Webster, Stephen Hucker and Karen De Freitas

II The Emergence of Actuarial Violence Prediction

Introduction

5 Understanding Prediction Instruments
Douglas Mossman

6 The Accuracy of Predictions of Violence to Others
Charles W. Lidz, Edward P. Mulvey and William Gardner

7 Violent Recidivism of Mentally Disordered Offenders: The Development of a Statistical Prediction Instrument
Grant T. Harris, Marnie E. Rice and Vernon L. Quinsey

8 Forecasting Recidivism in Mentally Ill Offenders Released from Prison
Gregg J. Gagliardi, David Lovell, Paul D. Peterson and Ron Jemelka

III Clinical Prediction and Assessment

Introduction

9 Risk Assessment, Prediction, and Foreseeability
William H. Reid

10 Personality Disorder: The Patients Psychiatrists Dislike
Glyn Lewis and Louis Appleby

Utility of Decision Support Tools for Assessing Acute Risk of Violence
Dale E. McNiel, Amanda L. Gregory, Judy N. Lam, Renée L. Binder and Glenn R. Sullivan

12 The Prediction of Violence in Acute Psychiatric Units
David Watts, Morven Leese, Stuart Thomas, Zerrin Atakan and Til Wykes

13 The Uncritical Acceptance of Risk Assessment in Forensic Practice
Richard Rogers

14 The Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability (START): A Prospective Validation Study in a Forensic Psychiatric Sample
Tonia L. Nicholls, Johann Brink, Sarah L. Desmarais, Christopher D. Webster and Mary-Lou Martin

IV The Actuarial versus Clinical Controversy

Introduction

15 Transcending the Actuarial versus Clinical Polemic in Assessing Risk for Violence
Christopher D. Webster, Stephen J. Hucker and Hy Bloom

16 Actuarial versus Clinical Assessments of Dangerousness
Thomas R. Litwack

17 Risk Assessment and Release Decision-Making: Toward Resolving the Great Debate
Joel A. Dvoskin and Kirk Heilbrun

18 Violent Storms and Violent People: How Meteorology Can Inform Risk Communication in Mental Health Law
John Monahan and Henry J. Steadman

V Decision Making

Introduction

19 Offenders Remanded for a Psychiatric Examination: Perceived Treatability and Disposition
Vernon L. Quinsey and Anne Maguire

20 Risk Assessment as Collective Clinical Judgment
Denis Murphy

21 The Impact of Confidence on the Accuracy of Structured Professional and Actuarial Violence Risk Judgments in a Sample of Forensic Psychiatric Patients
Kevin S. Douglas and James R. P. Ogloff

22 Building Mental Health Professionals’ Decisional Models into Tests of Predictive Validity: The Accuracy of Contextualized Predictions of Violence
Jennifer L. Skeem, Edward P. Mulvey and Charles W. Lidz

23 The Influence of Actuarial Risk Assessment in Clinical Judgments and Tribunal Decisions about Mentally Disordered Offenders in Maximum Security
N. Zoe Hilton and Janet L. Simmons

VI Treatments, Security and Program Planning

Introduction

24 Reducing Violence in Severe Mental Illness: Randomised Controlled Trial of Intensive Case Management Compared with Standard Care
Elizabeth Walsh, Catherine Gilvarry, Chiara Samele, Kate Harvey, Catherine Manley, Peter Tyrer, Francis Creed, Robin Murray and Thomas Fahy for the UK700 Group

25 Treating Patients Found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity
Randall T. Salekin and Richard Rogers

26 An Evaluation of a Maximum Security Therapeutic Community for Psychopaths and Other Mentally Disordered Offenders
Marnie E. Rice, Grant T. Harris and Catherine A. Cormier

27 Psychopathy and Therapeutic Pessimism: Clinical Lore or Clinical Reality?
Randall T. Salekin

28 Preventing Crime by People with Schizophrenic Disorders: The Role of Psychiatric Services
S. Hodgins and R. Müller-Isberner

29 Therapeutic Uses of Security: Mapping Forensic Mental Health Services by Stratifying Risk
H.G. Kennedy

30 The Security Needs Assessment Profile: A Multidimensional Approach to Measuring Security Needs
Michael Collins and Steffan Davies

31 Implementing Recovery Oriented Evidence Based Programs: Identifying the Critical Dimensions
Marianne Farkas, Cheryl Gagne, William Anthony and Judi Chamberlin

Appendices

1. A Summary of Each Article and Book Chapter’s Contribution to the Field
2. Resources
3. Reference List of Reprinted Journal Articles and Book Chapters

 

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