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Assessments in Forensic Practice
A Handbook
"An eclectic collection of chapters which cover all aspects of scholarly understanding concerning sex offenders, Assessment and Treatment of Sex Offenders: A Handbook will prove invaluable to researchers, practitioners and students interested in furthering their understanding of this often complex offender group. "This book will prove an essential text to professionals and students who are involved in the study of, assessment, treatment and/or management of sex offenders. A book which covers the area so comprehensively has been a significant omission for some time, and thus this text is timely and fulfils a significant gap in the academic market."
—Professor Jane L. Ireland, University of Central Lancashire
Kevin D. Browne (Edited by), K Browne (Author), Anthony R. Beech (Edited by), Leam A. Craig (Edited by), Shihning Chou (Edited by)
9780470019016, Wiley
Hardback, published 5 May 2017
424 pages
24.6 x 17 x 2.5 cm, 0.748 kg
Assessment in Forensic Practice: A Handbook is an interesting compilation of theme-based chapters by British psychologists. It is a wonderful primer on doing criminal assessments and provides an in-depth review of many standard assessment tools, such as the Historical Clinical Risk Management-20 (HCR-20) and the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG). It also includes informative chapters concerning specific conditions, such as pyromania. The book is very good at covering large concepts that are often discussed in the psychiatric and psychological literature on criminal forensic assessment. Over the course of the book, many important areas are discussed, such as ethical concerns when doing forensic assessments, how to present opinions related to forensic assessment, and some of the inherent problems in forensic assessment, such as unknown base rates for malingering and difficulty with predicting the future.
Journal of Psychiatric Practice
Assessments in Forensic Practice: A Handbook provides practical guidance in the assessment of the most frequently encountered offender subgroups found within the criminal justice system. Topics include:
About the Editors vii Contributors ix 1. Introduction 1 Part One Criminal Justice Assessments 5 2. Case Formulation and Risk Assessment 7 3. Assessment of Violence and Homicide 28 4. Sexual Offenders 52 5. The Assessment of Firesetters 76 6. Forensic Psychological Risk Assessment for the Parole Board 103 7. Behavioral Assessment in Investigative Psychology 122 Part Two Offenders with Mental Disorders 137 8. Assessing Risk of Violence in Offenders with Mental Disorders 139 9. Assessing Mental Capacity and Fitness to Plead in Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities: Implications for Practice 172 10. Offenders with ‘Personality Disorder’ Diagnoses 198 11. Offenders and Substance Abuse 217 Part Three Family Violence 233 12. Community Approaches to the Assessment and Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence and Child Maltreatment 235 13. Psychological Assessment of Parenting in Family Proceedings 265 14. Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence 295 Part Four Policy and Practice 317 15. Assessment of Hostage Situations and Their Perpetrators: In the Context of Domestic Violence 319 16. Assessing the Sexually Abused Child as a Witness 333 17. Working with Young Offenders 354 18. The Ethics of Risk Assessment 370 Index 387
Kevin D. Browne, Anthony R. Beech, Leam A. Craig and Shihning Chou
Peter Sturmey and William R. Lindsay
Kerry Sheldon and Kevin Howells
Franca Cortoni, Anthony R. Beech and Leam A. Craig
Lynsey F. Gozna
Louise Bowers and Caroline Friendship
Eleanor M. Gittens and Kate Whitfield
James McGuire
Leam A. Craig, Ian Stringer and Roger B. Hutchinson
Lawrence Jones and Phil Willmot
Simon Duff
Kevin D. Browne, Shihning Chou and Vicki Jackson-Hollis
Karen Bailey, Eugene Ostapiuk and Taljinder Basra
Louise Dixon
Carol A. Ireland
Kevin D. Browne
Clive R. Hollin and Ruth M. Hatcher
James Vess, Tony Ward and Pamela M. Yates
Subject Areas: Psychology [JM]
