In the past decade, research on violence risk assessment has aimed to establish empirically
validated risk factors. Although a number of papers have reviewed what clinicians should …

Forensic practitioners are increasingly asked to conduct assessments and evaluations for
criminal justice systems, such as adult and juvenile courts, parole and probation …

The rationale for this article was to outline and describe an emerging model of prevention-
based violence risk assessment and management and to discuss attendant clinical and …

Violence risk assessment has advanced considerably in the last 20 years. In the 1980s,
leading professionals questioned the very possibility of valid violence risk assessments; …

In conclusion, we have attempted to illustrate how the area of risk assessment has made
significant advances in the last 15 years. As the field moved from an emphasis on the …

Within the conceptual framework of the scientist‐practitioner model, this paper describes
how the science of risk assessment has progressed to a point where it can be of definite …

Despite a long history of interest in, and criticism of, the ability of mental health professionals
to assess and predict violence, there have been few efforts to develop or evaluate …

Although there has been extensive research on violence risk assessment in the past
decade, it has not been examined whether clinicians in actual practice consider violence …

This comprehensive Handbook of original chapters serves as a resource for clinicians and
researchers alike. Two introductory chapters cover general issues in violence risk …

For more than 50 years it has been commonplace in the behavioral sciences to distinguish
“clinical” from “actuarial” methods of risk assessment and to conclude that the advantage in …