Violence and mental disorder : developments in risk assessment / edited by John Monahan and Henry J. Steadman.
"In courts across the country, judges depend on mental health experts to determine whether mentally disordered people are dangerous. But experts’ 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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1994.
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| Series: | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on mental health and development.
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| Summary: | "In courts across the country, judges depend on mental health experts to determine whether mentally disordered people are dangerous. But experts’ 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."--Publisher's website. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0226534057 9780226534053 0226534065 9780226534060 |