Mary Alice Conroy & Daniel C. Murrie 
Forensic Assessment of Violence Risk [PDF ebook] 
A Guide for Risk Assessment and Risk Management

Preface vii
Acknowledgments xi
1 Historical Overview of Risk Assessment 1
2 Introducing a Broad Model for Risk Assessment 16
3 Risk of What? Defining the Referral Question 34
4 What Do We Know Overall? Consider Normative Data and
Population Base Rates 45
5 What Do We Know about Individuals Like This One? Empirically
Supported Risk and Protective Factors 67
6 What Do We Know about This Individual? Idiographic Factors and
the Need for Individualized Assessment 83
7 What Can We Say about the Results of a Risk Assessment? Risk
Communication 99
8 From Risk Assessment to Risk Management 135
9 Risk Assessment of Patients with Serious Mental Illness
153
10 Risk Assessment with Sexual Offenders 179
11 Risk Assessment with Juvenile Offenders 202
12 Risk Assessment of Death Penalty Defendants 235
Epilogue 255
Appendix A Risk Assessment Instruments 259
Appendix B Sample Risk Assessment Reports 269
References 309
Index 353

Mary Alice Conroy, Ph D, ABPP, directs the Psychological
Services Center at Sam Houston State University. She is the
President of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology. During a
twenty-year career with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, she conducted
over 1, 200 risk assessments, including risk management planning.
She conducts numerous national and training workshops on forensic
assessment for lawyers, judges, correctional personnel, and mental
health professionals.
Daniel C. Murrie, Ph D, is an Associate Professor of
Psychology at Sam Houston State University. He has authored
numerous studies related to forensic psychological assessment and
maintains a private practice of forensic psychological evaluation,
specializing in risk assessment.