Assessments in Forensic Practice
A Handbook
Anthony R Beech editor Leam A Craig editor Kevin D Browne editor Shihning Chou editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Published:5th May '17
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Assessments 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
Assessment 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
ISBN: 9780470019016
Dimensions: 246mm x 170mm x 25mm
Weight: 748g
424 pages