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:
* criminal justice assessments
* offenders with mental disorders
* family violence
* policy and practice
Spis treści
About the Editors vii
Contributors ix
1. Introduction 1
Kevin D. Browne, Anthony R. Beech, Leam A. Craig and Shihning Chou
Part One Criminal Justice Assessments 5
2. Case Formulation and Risk Assessment 7
Peter Sturmey and William R. Lindsay
3. Assessment of Violence and Homicide 28
Kerry Sheldon and Kevin Howells
4. Sexual Offenders 52
Franca Cortoni, Anthony R. Beech and Leam A. Craig
5. The Assessment of Firesetters 76
Lynsey F. Gozna
6. Forensic Psychological Risk Assessment for the Parole Board 103
Louise Bowers and Caroline Friendship
7. Behavioral Assessment in Investigative Psychology 122
Eleanor M. Gittens and Kate Whitfield
Part Two Offenders with Mental Disorders 137
8. Assessing Risk of Violence in Offenders with Mental Disorders 139
James Mc Guire
9. Assessing Mental Capacity and Fitness to Plead in Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities: Implications for Practice 172
Leam A. Craig, Ian Stringer and Roger B. Hutchinson
10. Offenders with 'Personality Disorder’ Diagnoses 198
Lawrence Jones and Phil Willmot
11. Offenders and Substance Abuse 217
Simon Duff
Part Three Family Violence 233
12. Community Approaches to the Assessment and Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence and Child Maltreatment 235
Kevin D. Browne, Shihning Chou and Vicki Jackson-Hollis
13. Psychological Assessment of Parenting in Family Proceedings 265
Karen Bailey, Eugene Ostapiuk and Taljinder Basra
14. Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence 295
Louise Dixon
Part Four Policy and Practice 317
15. Assessment of Hostage Situations and Their Perpetrators: In the Context of Domestic Violence 319
Carol A. Ireland
16. Assessing the Sexually Abused Child as a Witness 333
Kevin D. Browne
17. Working with Young Offenders 354
Clive R. Hollin and Ruth M. Hatcher
18. The Ethics of Risk Assessment 370
James Vess, Tony Ward and Pamela M. Yates
Index 387
O autorze
Kevin D. Browne is Professor of Forensic Psychology and Child Health at the University of Nottingham.
Leam A. Craig is Director of Forensic Programmes at Forensic Psychology Practice Ltd, and an Honorary Lecturer in Forensic Psychology at the University of Birmingham.
Anthony R. Beech, D.Phil, FBPs S, C.Psychol (Forensic) is Professor of Criminological Psychology, University of Birmingham.
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