Product Description
Argue that community risk management can be improved by using actuarial assessment and by combining what is known about the prediction of violence, the study of clinical decision making, and the literature on treatment outcome and program evaluation. In this new edition, the authors update their review, focusing on the actuarial instruments they developed and described earlier and on the measures they have continued to develop. In their lively style, they review the commentary on risk appraisal, addressing 20 of the most common arguments against actuarial risk appraisal.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 3 reviews)

The Book Actually Contains The Instruments! by Pen Name and That A

5 Stars
December 11, 2009
As one of the other reviewers pointed out, this book contains the measurement instruments. That is not so of all the other books on the subject. A particularly good bit of this book is where it discusses the research that showed that giving empathy training to psychopaths worsens outcomes. Some people still just don't undertand that.

Violent Offenders Can Run, But They Can't Hide! by randy starr (Chicago, IL)

5 Stars
June 02, 2000
The authors clearly know their material and. perhaps, most importantly, know how to convey this information in a clear and forthright manner. Facts and statistics saturate the content of the text, and do so in the professional style one would hope for. Historical, with expert research always evident, this is a resource which ought to be on the desks of all of those professionals who are involved with the complex and often tedious demands surrounding actuarial assessments!

Comprehensive and Uncompromising by David B. Swanson (Rochester, Minnesota USA)

5 Stars
March 25, 2000
This is an excellent book about the development of actuarial tools to determine risk for Violence and Sex Offender Risk. The books content covers the history of research in this area over the last 25 years and methods and measurement. The Chapter on clinical judgement is excellent and sets the stage for the need of actuarial assessments to enhance our ability to determine risk. The appendicies contain the two risk tools developed by the authors: 1) Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG, and 2) Sex Offender Risk Appraisal Guide (SORAG). I highly recommend this book!

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