Clinical Forensic Psychology and Law

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Series Preface Introduction Part I Criminal Forensic Assessment: Violence risk assessment: science and practice, K.S. Douglas and C.D. Webster Prediction versus management models relevant to risk assessment: the importance of legal decision-making context, K. Heilbrun Searching for the pancultural core of psychopathic personality disorder, D.J. Cooke, C. Michie and S.D. Hart The characteristics of persistent sexual offenders: a meta-analysis of recidivism studies, R.K. Hanson and K.E. Morton-Bourgon The competence of criminal defendants: a theoretical reformulation, R.J. Bonnie An investigation into the construct of competence: a comparison of the FIT, the MacCat-CA, and the MacCat-T, P.A. Zapf and R. Roesch. Part II Civil Forensic Assessment: Legal protection in psychiatry: balancing the rights and needs of patients and society, J. Legemaate The MacArthur Treatment Competence Study: I mental illness and competence to consent to treatment, P.S. Appelbaum and T. Grisso Mental disorder, violence, and gender, P.C. Robbins, J. Monahan and E. Silver Empirical limits for forensic assessment of PTSD litigants, W.J. Koch, M. O'Neill and K.S. Douglas A critical assessment of child custody evaluation, R.E. Emery, R.K. Otto and W.T. O'Donohue. Part III Forensic Treatment: From nothing works to what works: changing professional ideology in the 21st century, F.T. Cullen and P. Gendreau Psychopathy and therapeutic pessimism: clinical lore or clinical reality?, R.T. Salekin Developments in the assessment and treatment of sexual offenders: looking backward with a view to the future, J. Abracen and J. Looman Evaluation of a national prison-based treatment program for sexual offenders in England and Wales, C. Friendship, R.E. Mann and A.R. Beech Treatment effects on forensic psychiatric patients measured with the HCR-20 violence risk assessment scheme, H. Belfrage and K.S. Douglas Evaluation of a mental health treatment court with assertive community treatment, M. Cosden, J.L. Schnell, Yamini-Diouf and M.M. Wolfe. Part IV Youth Assessment and Intervention: The transfer of juveniles to adult court in Canada and the United States: confused agendas and compromised assessment procedures, S.R. Penney and M.M. Moretti Young children who commit crime: epidemiology, developmental origins, risk factors, early interventions and policy implications, R. Loeber and D.P. Farrington Psychiatric disorders in youth in juvenile detention, L.A. Teplin, K.M. Abram. G.M. McClelland, M.K. Dulcan and A.A. Mericle Examining the science and practice of violence risk assessment with female adolescents, C.L. Odgers, M. Moretti and N. Reppucci The inherent limits of predicting school violence, E.P. Mulvey and E. Cauffman Juveniles competence to stand trial: a comparison of adolescents' and adults' capacities as trial defendants, T. Grisso, L. Steinberg, J.L. Woolard, E. Cauffman, E. Scott, S. Graham, F. Lexcen, N. Reppucci and R. Schwartz Multisystemic treatment of criminality and violence in adolescents, C.M. Borduin Managing at-risk juvenile offenders in the community: putting evidence-based principles into practice, R. Borum. Part V Forensic Practice: Professional and Ethical Issues: The practice of forensic psychology: a look toward the future in light of the past, R.K. Otto and K. Heilbrun Training in law and psychology: models from the Villanova conference, D. Bersoff, J. Goodman-Delahunty, J.T. Grisso, V.P. Hans, N.G. Poythress and R. Roesch Irreconcilable conflict between therapeutic and forensic roles, S.A. Greenberg and D.W. Shuman The quality of forensic psychological assessments, reports and testimony: acknowledging the gap between promise and practice, R.A. Nicholson and S. Norwood Emerging issues in forensic mental health, J. Petrila Index.