Violence and Mental Disorder: Developments in Risk Assessment - Couverture rigide

Monahan, John; Steadman, Henry J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0226534057 ISBN 13 : 9780226534053

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1994

Synopsis

Every day in courts across the country, judges look to psychiatrists and psychologists to try to determine the potential dangerousness of mentally disordered persons. But recent studies have shown that the ability to predict violence is severely limited - and experts tend to be wrong more often than they are right. This comprehensive review of research from 1970 to 1993 offers new empirical and theoretical work on mental disorder that may pave the way for more accurate predictions of violent behaviour. The contributors consider why there has been little progress in the field, citing the narrowness of previous research and the lack of a theory of mental disorder. They assess the predictor variables in four domains: an individual's dispositional tendencies, clinical and psychopathological factors, case histories, and contextual issues. And they show how to develop better instruments for evaluating the risk of violent behaviour.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226534057
• ISBN 13: 9780226534053
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible