Violent Offenders: Appraising And Managing Risk,9781591473435

Violent Offenders: Appraising And Managing Risk

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9781591473435
ISBN10: 1591473438
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-11-01
Publisher(s): Amer Psychological Assn
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Summary

Queen's Univ., Ontario, Canada. New edition focuses on the actuarial instruments developed to measure and appraise potential violent offenders. Addresses 20 of the most common arguments against risk appraisal. Previous edition: c1998. For legal and psychological professionals, social workers, and policymakers.

Author Biography

Marnie E. Rice is the scientific director of the Centre for the Study of Aggression and Mental Disorder. Grant T. Harris is the director of research at the Mental Health Centre in Penetanguishene, Ontario, Canada. Vernon L. Quinsey is a professor of psychology, biology, and psychiatry at Queen's University in Kingston.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 3(6)
I. Historical and Methodological Context
9(74)
Historical Perspective
11(22)
North American Institutions
12(8)
Adjudication of Insanity Acquittees
20(6)
Preventive Detention
26(1)
Mentally Disordered Offenders in Ontario
27(2)
Oak Ridge
29(2)
Conclusion
31(2)
Previous Research on Prediction
33(16)
Empirical Prediction of Recidivism
35(6)
Critique
41(7)
Conclusion
48(1)
Methods and Measurement
49(12)
What We Do Not Define
49(1)
Some Terms Defined
50(1)
Thinking About Effect Sizes
51(4)
Measuring Predictive Accuracy
55(6)
Clinical Judgment
61(22)
Human Judgment
61(1)
Clinical Judgment
62(1)
Prediction of Violence
63(6)
Clinical and Actuarial Models
69(4)
Evidence-Based Clinical Practice in Forensic Facilities
73(1)
Professional Training and Expertise
74(9)
II. A New Generation of Follow-Up Studies
83(70)
Mentally Disordered Offenders
85(30)
Characteristics of Mentally Disordered Offenders
86(5)
A Follow-Up of a Maximum-Security Token Economy
91(1)
A Comparative Follow-Up of a Maximum-Security Therapeutic Community
92(8)
A Follow-Up of Insanity Acquittees and a Comparison Sample of Correctional Inmates
100(3)
A Comparison of Criminal Recidivism Among Schizophrenic and Nonschizophrenic Offenders
103(5)
Psychiatric Comorbidity and the Prediction of Violence
108(5)
Conclusion
113(2)
Fire Setters
115(16)
Historical Overview
115(3)
Characteristics of Fire Setters
118(3)
Social Competence of Fire Setters
121(1)
Fire Setter Subtypes
122(2)
Assessing Risk Among Fire Setters
124(2)
Oak Ridge Study of Risk Assessment Among Fire Setters
126(5)
Sex Offenders
131(22)
Sex Offenders and Sexual Deviance
133(7)
Is There a Sex Offender Psychology?
140(1)
Predictors of Recidivism Among Sex Offenders
141(7)
Treatment and Recidivism Among Sex Offenders
148(2)
Conclusion
150(3)
III. Development of Violence Prediction Instruments
153(72)
Actuarial Prediction of Violence
155(42)
Construction
155(8)
Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG)
163(6)
Application of the VRAG
169(2)
Special Populations
171(9)
Redundancy and Robustness of the VRAG
180(3)
An Analysis of Replications of the VRAG and SORAG
183(9)
Conclusion
192(5)
Criticisms of Actuarial Risk Assessment
197(28)
Twenty Arguments Against Actuarial Risk Appraisal
199(20)
Presenting Evidence About Actuarial Risk Appraisal
219(6)
IV. Altering the Risk of Violence and Conclusions
225(54)
Treatment and Management
227(40)
Planning Institutional Treatment Programs
228(21)
Process of Recidivism and Relapse Prevention
249(3)
Dynamic Risk
252(13)
Conclusion
265(2)
Conclusions
267(12)
Actuarial Prediction and Theory
269(10)
Epilogue
279(4)
Appendixes
283(110)
A. Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG)
283(4)
B. Sex Offender Risk Appraisal Guide (SORAG)
287(4)
C. Normative Data on the Distribution of Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG) and Sex Offender Risk Appraisal Guide (SORAG) Scores
291(2)
D. Technical Questions About the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG) and the Sex Offender Risk Appraisal Guide (SORAG)
293(16)
E. Cormier-Lang System for Quantifying Criminal History
309(4)
F. Guidelines for the Compilation of a Psychosocial History Suitable for Risk Appraisal
313(18)
G. Sample Psychosocial History Suitable for Use in Scoring the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG) and the Sex Offender Risk Appraisal Guide (SORAG)
331(10)
H. Scoring the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG) From a Psychosocial History
341(6)
I. Scoring the Sex Offender Risk Appraisal Guide (SORAG) From a Psychosocial History
347(6)
J. Actuarial Risk Appraisal Report for an Offender
353(8)
K. Sample Psychosocial History and Scoring of the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG) for a Psychiatric Offender
361(18)
L. Problem Identification Checklist (File Version)
379(4)
M. Proximal Risk Factor Scale
383(2)
N. Dynamic Risk Appraisal Scale
385(6)
O. Cross-Sectional Oak Ridge Statistics Over 35 Years
391(2)
References 393(46)
Author Index 439(10)
Subject Index 449(12)
About the Authors 461

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