Forensic Assessment of Violence Risk: A Guide for Risk Assessment and Risk Management » (1st Edition)

Mary Alice Conroy, PhD, ABPP, directs the Psychological Services Center at Sam Houston State University. She is the President of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology. During a twenty-year career with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, she conducted over 1,200 risk assessments, including risk management planning. She conducts numerous national and training workshops on forensic assessment for lawyers, judges, correctional personnel, and mental health professionals.

Daniel C. Murrie, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Sam Houston State University. He has authored numerous studies related to forensic psychological assessment and maintains a private practice of forensic psychological evaluation, specializing in risk assessment.

Forensic Assessment of Violence Risk: A Guide for Risk Assessment and Risk Management provides both a summary of research to date and an integrated model for mental health professionals conducting risk assessments, one of the most high-stakes evaluations forensic mental health professionals perform.

Preface     vii
Acknowledgments     xi
Historical Overview of Risk Assessment     1
Introducing a Broad Model for Risk Assessment     16
Risk of What? Defining the Referral Question     34
What Do We Know Overall? Consider Normative Data and Population Base Rates     45
What Do We Know about Individuals Like This One? Empirically Supported Risk and Protective Factors     67
What Do We Know about This Individual? Idiographic Factors and the Need for Individualized Assessment     83
What Can We Say about the Results of a Risk Assessment? Risk Communication     99
From Risk Assessment to Risk Management     135
Risk Assessment of Patients with Serious Mental Illness     153
Risk Assessment with Sexual Offenders     179
Risk Assessment with Juvenile Offenders     202
Risk Assessment of Death Penalty Defendants     235
Epilogue     255
Risk Assessment Instruments     259
Sample Risk Assessment Reports     269
References     309
Index     353