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Book SynopsisAssessments 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
Trade ReviewAssessment 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
Table of ContentsAbout 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 McGuire
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
