Violent Offenders : Understanding and Assessment.

Cover -- Violent Offenders -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- Section I. Overview and Correlates of Violence -- 1. Psychological Perspectives of Violence -- 2. Antisocial Behavior Among Children in Poverty: Understanding Environmental Effects in Daily Life -- 3. Substance Abuse and Violence -- 4. Major Mental Disorders and Violence -- 5. Aggressive Externalizing Disorders: Conduct Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder, and Psychopathy -- Section II Special Offender Populations -- 6. Juvenile Homicide: Trends, Correlates, Causal Factors, and Outcomes -- 7. Physically and Sexually Violent Females -- 8. Homicide: A National and Global Perspective -- 9. Psychological Factors in Intimate Partner Violence -- 10. Perpetrators of Sexual Violence: Demographics, Assessments, Interventions -- 11. Under the Color of Authority: Police Officers As Violent Offenders -- 12. Institutional Violence Risk: Theory, Assessment, and Management -- 13. Youth Gangs: An Overview of Key Findings and Directions for the Future -- 14. Understanding Terrorists -- Section III Evaluative Approach and Special Considerations -- 15. Legal, Clinical, and Scientific Foundations of Violence Risk Assessment -- 16. Use of Assessment Measures for the Evaluation of Future Risk -- 17. The Structured Professional Judgment Approach to Violence Risk Assessment and Management: Why It Is Useful, How to Use It, and Its Empirical Support -- 18. Assessing Facets of Personality and Psychopathology in Violent Offenders -- 19. Assessing Malingering in Violent Offenders -- 20. Assessment of Neurophysiological and Neuropsychological Bases for Violence -- 21. Violence: Psychiatric Assessment and Intervention -- 22. Ethical Considerations and Professional Roles in Working With Violent Offenders -- 23. Conducting Research With Special Populations -- Index.

Violent Offenders addresses the numerous challenges and issues facing individuals working with this population and provides broad coverage regarding specific groups of violent perpetrators.

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