Violent Offenders: Appraising and Managing Risk

by Grant T. Harris, Catherine A. Cormier, Marnie E. Rice, et al.

Predicting future violence among criminal offenders is notoriously difficult. In the previous editions of this popular book, the authors argued that community risk management is best done with actuarial assessment. Combining what is known about violence prediction, clinical decision making, and the literature on treatment outcome and program evaluation, they introduced and chronicled the development of their landmark assessment instruments, the Violence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433819015
• ISBN13: 9781433819018
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
• Length: 470 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.2" x 10.0"