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Violent Offenders: Appraising And Managing Risk (LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY: PSYCHOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES) 2nd Edition

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Argue that community risk management can be improved by using actuarial assessment and by combining what is known about the prediction of violence, the study of clinical decision making, and the literature on treatment outcome and program evaluation. In this new edition, the authors update their review, focusing on the actuarial instruments they developed and described earlier and on the measures they have continued to develop. In their lively style, they review the commentary on risk appraisal, addressing 20 of the most common arguments against actuarial risk appraisal.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amer Psychological Assn; 2nd edition (November 1, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 462 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1591473438
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1591473435
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.28 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.5 x 1.25 x 7.5 inches

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Vern Quinsey was born in Flin Flon, Manitoba, in 1944 and raised in Port Arthur (now Thunder Bay) Ontario. He graduated from from the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks in psychology and zoology in 1966, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Psi Chi, with honours in psychology. He received a PhD in biopsychology in 1970 from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he was a University Fellow.

He was employed at the maximum security psychiatric hospital in Penetanguishene, Ontario beginning in 1971. In 1976, he became the Founding Director of the Research Department of the Penetanguishene Mental Health Centre.

In 1988, he was appointed Professor of Psychology and Queen's National Scholar at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He was Head of the Psychology Department from 2004 to 2008 and became Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Biology, and Psychiatry in 2009.

Since retirement, he has pursued nature photography, genealogical research, and, most recently, writing fiction.

His academic website is: https://www.queensu.ca/psychology/people/emeritus-and-retired-faculty/vern-quinsey and his personal website is: https://vernquinsey.weebly.com/ .

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David B. Swanson

Comprehensive and Uncompromising

Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2000

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This is an excellent book about the development of actuarial tools to determine risk for Violence and Sex Offender Risk. The books content covers the history of research in this area over the last 25 years and methods and measurement. The Chapter on clinical judgement is excellent and sets the stage for the need of actuarial assessments to enhance our ability to determine risk. The appendicies contain the two risk tools developed by the authors: 1) Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG, and 2) Sex Offender Risk Appraisal Guide (SORAG). I highly recommend this book!

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Randolph Stephenson

Actuarial Assessment of Offenders

Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2014

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Excellent book on the topic of actuarial assessment!

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Robert John Zagar PhD MPH

Why Use the VRAG or SORAG When These Tests Miss 1 out of 4 At-risk Violent-Prone?

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2015

The issue I have with Vernon Quinsey and colleagues is that they miss one out of 4 violent prone at risk individuals with the VRAG and SORAG. Having developed a superior instrument with better experimental design, i.e., matched control groups, random sampling across different ages from infancy through adulthood with males and females, and more robust statistics, our specificity and sensitivity with the Standard Predictor range from .91-.99. Would you go to an auto mechanic who could fix your care 75% of the time, or a shoemaker or physician who could solve the challenge with that kind of precision or accuracy?

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randy starr

Violent Offenders Can Run, But They Can't Hide!

Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2000

The authors clearly know their material and. perhaps, most importantly, know how to convey this information in a clear and forthright manner. Facts and statistics saturate the content of the text, and do so in the professional style one would hope for. Historical, with expert research always evident, this is a resource which ought to be on the desks of all of those professionals who are involved with the complex and often tedious demands surrounding actuarial assessments!

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