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  title info:
    title: Violent offenders
    sub title: appraising and managing risk
  title info:
    title: PsycBOOKs
  name:
    name part: Quinsey, Vernon L.
  name:
    name part: American Psychological Association
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 1998
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 356 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: The primary focus of this book is on criminal violence of both mentally disordered and criminal inmates, whose histories of criminal violence raise serious societal concerns about the commission of future acts of violence. It is difficult for legal experts, psychologists, and policy makers to make decisions that strike the proper balance between an offender's civil liberties and community safety. Such a balance requires an accurate assessment of the likelihood that an individual offender will commit a new violent or sexual offense. On the basis of their research on mentally disordered offenders, sex offenders, fire setters, and psychopathic offenders, the authors have devised an actuarial assessment instrument, the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide. The authors argue that risk management can be improved by combining what is already known about predicting violence, clinical decision making, and program evaluation. They conclude that the results of their applied research have implications for our understanding of the etiology of violent criminal behavior. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).
  table of contents: Ch. 1. Historical Perspective -- Ch. 2. Previous Research on Prediction -- Ch. 3. Methods and Measurement -- Ch. 4. Clinical Judgment -- Ch. 5. Mentally Disordered Offenders -- Ch. 6. Fire Setters -- Ch. 7. Sex Offenders -- Ch. 8. Actuarial Prediction of Violence -- Ch. 9. Fifteen Arguments Against Actuarial Risk Appraisal -- Ch. 10. Treatment and Management -- Ch. 11. Conclusion -- App. A. Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG) -- App. B. Sex Offender Risk Appraisal Guide (SORAG) -- App. C. Normative Data on the Distribution of VRAG and SORAG Scores -- App. D. Technical Questions About the Application of the VRAG and SORAG -- App. E. Cormier-Lang System for Quantifying Criminal History -- App. F. Manual for the Compilation of a Psychosocial History Suitable for Risk Appraisal -- App. G. Detailed Example Psychosocial History Suitable for Scoring the VRAG and SORAG -- App. H. Detailed Example of Scoring the VRAG From the Psychosocial History in Appendix G.
  note: Vernon L. Quinsey [and others].
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Made available through: American Psychological Association's PsyBooks Collection.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-337) and indexes.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Mentally ill prisoners
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Sex offenders
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Violent offenders
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Mentally Ill Persons
  subject:
    topic: Prisoners
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Mentally ill prisoners
  subject:
    topic: Sex offenders
  subject:
    topic: Violent offenders
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: HV9304 .V56 1998eb
  classification: 365/.64
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Violent offenders (print)
    identifier: (DLC) 98004013
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Law and public policy
  identifier: 1557984956
  identifier: 9781557984951
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: YUM
    record creation date: 980330
    record change date: 20190412191714.0
    record identifier: in00003712365
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng