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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.