About the Editors xi
About the Contributors xiii
Foreword xxvii
Acknowledgements xxix
Part I Introduction 1
1 An Overview of Violent Behaviour from Aggression to Homicide:
Theory, Research, and Practice 3
J. Stephen Wormith, Leam A. Craig, and Todd E. Hogue
2 What Do We Know About Violent Offending Behaviour? 33
Daryl G. Kroner and Gunnar C. Butler
3 What Works with Violent Offenders: A Response to ‘Nothing
Works’ 53
James McGuire
Part II What Works in Violence Risk Assessment 79
4 From Predicting Dangerousness to Assessing and Managing Risk
for Violence: A Journey Across Four Generations 81
James R.P. Ogloff and Michael R. Davis
5 Violence Risk Formation: The Move Towards Collaboratively
Produced, Strengths‐Based Safety Planning 99
Lawrence Jones
6 Predicting Violent Reoffending with the VRAG‐R: Overview,
Controversies, and Future Directions for Actuarial Risk Scales
119
L. Maaike Helmus and Vernon L. Quinsey
7 Structured Professional Judgement in Violence Risk Assessment
145
Catherine Garrington and Douglas P. Boer
8 Intimate Partner Violence Risk Assessment and Management: An
RNR Approach to Threat Assessment 163
N. Zoe Hilton and Liam Ennis
9 Sexual Violence Risk Assessment 183
Martin Rettenberger and Leam A. Craig
10 Personality‐Based Violence Risk Assessment 203
Mark E. Olver
11 Assessing Risk for Violent, General, and Sexual Offending in
Adolescents: Recent Advances and Future Directions 223
Jodi L. Viljoen , Melissa R. Jonnson, and Stephane M. Shepherd
Part III What Works in Specialty Clinical Assessments 251
12 The Importance of Understanding Anger in the Clinical
Assessment of Violence 253
Andrew Day and Ephrem Fernandez
13 Gang Violence Prevention Efforts: A Public Health Approach
265
Dawn McDaniel and Caitlin Sayegh
14 Terrorism and Ideological Violence 279
Wagdy Loza
15 Assessing the Risk and Treatment Needs of People Who
Perpetrate Intimate Partner Violence 297
Louise Dixon and Nicola Graham‐Kevan
16 Aggression from a Psychobiological Perspective: Implications
for Enhanced Violent Risk Assessment and Interventions 315
David Nussbaum
17 Assessment of Risk of Violent Offending for Adults with
Intellectual Disability and/or Autism Spectrum Disorder 349
Martyn Matthews and Elliot Bell
Part IV What Works in Violence Intervention 367
18 Risk‐Reducing Treatment in High‐Risk Psychopathic and Violent
Offenders 369
Devon L.L. Polaschek and Stephen C.P. Wong
19 Anger Treatment with Violent Offenders 385
Raymond W. Novaco
20 Managing Violent Offenders with a Personality Disorder
399
Caroline Logan
21 Antisocial and Aggressive Behaviour Amongst Persons with
Schizophrenia: Evidence and Propositions for Prevention 419
Sheilagh Hodgins
22 Intimate Partner Violence Perpetrator Programmes: Ideology or
Evidence‐Based Practice? 437
Nicola Graham‐Kevan and Elizabeth A. Bates
23 Interventions for Violent Offenders with Intellectual and
Developmental Disabilities 451
John L. Taylor
Part V What Works in Violence Risk Management 465
24 Sexual Violence Risk Management 467
Gina Ambroziak and David Thornton
25 Effective Systems and Processes for Managing Violent
Offenders in the United Kingdom and the European Union 485
Hazel Kemshall and Sarah Hilder
26 Beyond Core Correctional Practice: Facilitating Prosocial
Change through the Strategic Training Initiative in Community
Supervision 505
Guy Bourgon, Nick Chadwick, and Tanya Rugge
27 What Works in Risk Assessment in Stalking Cases 527
David V. James and Lorraine P. Sheridan
28 Managing Violent Offenders in the Community: Reentry and
Beyond 543
Ralph C. Serin , Christopher T. Lowenkamp , and Caleb D. Lloyd
Index 559
J. STEPHEN WORMITH, PHD, was Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) and Director of the Centre of Forensic Behavioral Science and Justice Studies at U of S. He had consulted recently on correctional matters with governments of British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Canada and served in court as an expert witness on matters of offender assessment and treatment. He was a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association.
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.
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