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Violent offenders : understanding and assessment /

"Offenders convicted of violent crimes accounted for almost 15,000 (7.5%) of the federal inmate population in recent reports; and, despite the public's perception that the overall crime rate is down, there are indications that rates of violent crime may actually be increasing in certain ge...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pietz, Christina A. (Editor ), Mattson, Curtis A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • About the editors
  • Contributors
  • Overview and constructs of violence
  • Psychological perspectives of violence / Melanie Schettler
  • Antisocial behavior among children in poverty : understanding environmental effects in daily life / Michael A. Russell and Candice L. Odgers
  • Substance abuse and violence / Curtis A. Mattson and Christina A. Pietz
  • Major mental disorders and violence / Laura S. Guy and Kevin S. Douglas
  • Aggressive externalizing disorders : conduct disorder, antisocial personality disorder, and psychopathy / Laura E. Drislane, Noah C. Venables, and Christopher J. Patrick
  • Special offender populations
  • Juvenile homicide : trends, correlates, causal factors, and outcomes / Kathleen M. Heide
  • Physically and sexually violent females / Geoffrey R. McKee and R. Gregg Dwyer
  • Homicide: a national and global perspective / Bethany K. Walters and Eric W. Hickey
  • Psychological factors in intimate partner violence / Donald Dutton and Christie Tetreault
  • Perpetrators of sexual violence : demographics, assessments, interventions / Alix M. McLearen, Ivonne E. Bazerman, and Katherine Bracken-Minor
  • Under the color of authority: police officers as violent offenders / David M. Corey and Casey O. Stewart
  • Institutional violence risk : theory, assessment, and management / Daniel J. Neller and Michael J. Vitacco
  • Youth gangs : an overview of key findings and directions for the future / Terrance J. Taylor and J. Michael Vecchio
  • Understanding terrorists / Randy Borum
  • Evaluative approach and special considerations
  • Legal, clinical and scientific foundations of violence risk assessment / David F. Mrad and Daniel J. Neller
  • Use of assessment measures for the evaluation of future risk / Chad A. Brinkley
  • The structured professional judgment approach to violence risk assessment and management : why it is useful, how to use it, and its empirical support / Kevin S. Douglas and Henrik Belfrage
  • Assessing facets of personality and psychopathology in violent offenders / Dustin B. Wygant, Kathryn C. Applegate, and Tina D. Wall
  • Assessing malingering in violent offenders / Holly A. Miller
  • Assessment of neurophysiological and neuropsychological bases for violence / Rachel Fazio and Robert L. Denney
  • Violence : psychiatric assessment and intervention / Charles Scott, Philip J. Resnick, and William Newman
  • Ethical considerations and professional roles in working with violent offenders / Kimberly Larson, Robert Kinscherff, and Stacey Goldstein
  • Conducting research with special populations / Gianni Pirelli and Patricia A. Zapf
  • Index.