The Wiley Handbook of What Works in Violence Risk Management
Theory, Research, and Practice
1. Edition February 2020
608 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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A comprehensive guide to the theory, research and practice of violence risk management
The Wiley Handbook of What Works in Violence Risk Management: Theory, Research and Practice offers a comprehensive guide to the theory, research and practice of violence risk management. With contributions from a panel of noted international experts, the book explores the most recent advances to the theoretical understanding, assessment and management of violent behavior. Designed to be an accessible resource, the highly readable chapters address common issues associated with violent behavior such as alcohol misuse and the less common issues for example offenders with intellectual disabilities.
Written for both those new to the field and professionals with years of experience, the book offers a wide-ranging review of who commit acts of violence, their prevalence in society and the most recent explanations for their behavior. The contributors explore various assessment approaches and highlight specialized risk assessment instruments. The Handbook provides the latest evidence on effective treatment and risk management and includes a number of well-established and effective treatment interventions for violent offenders. This important book:
* Contains an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the topic
* Includes contributions from an international panel of experts
* Offers information on violence risk formulation
* Reveals the most recent techniques in violence risk assessment
* Explains what works in violence intervention
* Reviews specialty clinical assessments
Written for clinicians and other professionals in the field of violence prevention and assessment, The Wiley Handbook of What Works in Violence Risk Management is unique in its approach because it offers a comprehensive review of the topic rather than like other books on the market that take a narrower view.
About the Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Part I Introduction
1 An Overview of Violent Behavior from Aggression to Homicide: Theory, Research, and Practice
J. Stephen Wormith, Leam A. Craig, and Todd Hogue
2 What do we Know about Violent Offending Behaviour?
Daryl Kroner and Gunner C. Butler
3 What Works with Violent Offenders: A Response to Nothing Works
James McGuire
Part II What Works in Violence Risk Assessment
4 From Predicting Dangerousness to Assessing and Managing Risk for Violence: A Journey across Four Generations
James R. P. Ogloff and Michael R. Davis
5 Violence Risk Formulation: The Move Towards Co-produced, "Strengths-based" Safety Planning
Lawrence Jones
6 Predicting Violent Reoffending with the VRAG-R: Overview, Controversies, and Future Directions for Actuarial Risk Scales
L. Maaike Helmus and Vernon L. Quinsey
7 Structured Professional Judgement in Violence Risk Assessment
Catherine Garrington and Douglas P. Boer
8 Intimate Partner Violence Risk Assessment and Management: An RNR Approach to Threat Assessment
N. Zoe Hilton and Liam Ennis
9 Sexual Violence Risk Assessment
Martin Rettenberger and Leam A. Craig
10 Personality-based Violent Risk Assessment
Mark E. Olver
11 Assessing Risk for Violent, General, and Sexual Offending in Adolescents: Recent Advances and Future Directions
Jodi L. Viljoen, Melissa R. Jonnson, and Stephanie M. Shephard
Part III What Works in Specialty Clinical Assessments
12 The Importance of Understanding Anger in the Clinical Assessment of Violence
Andrew Day and Ephrem Fernandez
13 Gang Violence Prevention Efforts: A Public Health Approach
Dawn McDaniel and Caitlin Sayegh
14 Terrorism and Ideological Violence
Wagdy Loza
15 Assessing the Risk and Treatment Needs of People who Perpetrate Intimate Partner Violence
Louise Dixon and Nicola Graham-Kevan
16 Aggression from a Psychobiological Perspective: Implications for Enhanced Violent Risk Assessment and Interventions
David Nussbaum
17 Assessing Violent Offenders with an Intellectual Disability
Martyn Matthews and Elliot Bell
Part IV What Works in Violence Intervention
18 Risk-reducing Treatment in High-Risk Psychopathic and Violent Offenders
Devon L. L. Polaschek and Stephen C. P. Wong
19 Anger Treatment with Violent Offenders
Raymond W. Novaco
20 Managing Violent Offenders with a Personality Disorder
Caroline Logan
21 Antisocial and Aggressive Behaviour Among Persons with Schizophrenia: Evidence and Propositions for Prevention
Sheilagh Hodgins
22 Intimate Partner Violence Perpetrator Programs
Nicola Graham-Kevan and Elizabeth A. Bates
23 Interventions for Violent Offenders with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
John L. Taylor
Part V What Works in Violence Risk Management
24 Sexual Violence Risk Management
Gina Ambroziak and David Thornton
25 Effective Systems and Processes for Managing Violent Offenders in the United Kingdom and the European Union
Hazel Kemshall and Sarah Hilder
26 Beyond Core Correctional Practice: Facilitating Prosocial Change through the Strategic Training Initiative in Community Supervision
Guy Bourgon, Nick Chadwick, and Tanya Rugge
27 What Works in Risk Assessment in Stalking Cases
David V. James and Lorraine P. Sheridan
28 Managing Violent Offenders in the Community: Reentry and Beyond
Ralph C. Serin, Christopher T. Lowenkamp, and Caleb D. Lloyd
LEAM A. CRAIG, PHD, is a Consultant Forensic Clinical Psychologist and Partner at Forensic Psychology Practice Ltd. He is a visiting Professor of Forensic Clinical Psychology, Birmingham City University and Hon. Professor of Forensic Psychology, University of Birmingham. He acts as an expert witness on the assessment and treatment of offenders and is Chair of the British Psychological Society Expert Witness Advisory Group. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and of the Academy of Social Sciences.
TODD E. HOGUE, PHD, is Professor of Forensic Psychology at the University of Lincoln and a registered forensic and clinical psychologist who has worked in prison and secure healthcare settings mainly developing treatment services for personality disorder offenders and those who commit sexual offences.
