Monahan: Violence & Mental Disorder (cloth): Developments in Risk Assessment (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and Development) - Hardcover

Monahan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226534057 ISBN 13: 9780226534053

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1993

Synopsis

Every day in courts across the country, judges look to psychiatrists and psychologists to try to determine the potential dangerousness of mentally disordered persons. But recent studies have shown that the ability to predict violence is severely limited - and experts tend to be wrong more often than they are right. This comprehensive review of research from 1970 to 1993 offers new empirical and theoretical work on mental disorder that may pave the way for more accurate predictions of violent behaviour. The contributors consider why there has been little progress in the field, citing the narrowness of previous research and the lack of a theory of mental disorder. They assess the predictor variables in four domains: an individual's dispositional tendencies, clinical and psychopathological factors, case histories, and contextual issues. And they show how to develop better instruments for evaluating the risk of violent behaviour.

About this title

From the Back Cover

In courts across the country, judges depend on mental health experts to determine whether mentally disordered people are dangerous. But expert's ability to predict violence is severely limited, and they are wrong as often as they are right. This study reviews two decades of research on mental disorder and offers new empirical and theoretical work that will pave the way for more accurate predictions of violent behavior.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226534057
• ISBN 13: 9780226534053
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 334