International Perspectives on Violence Risk Assessment

Jay P. Singh, PhD, PhD, is Founder of the Global Institute of Forensic Research and Professor of Epidemiology and Violence Risk Assessment at Molde University College in Norway. Professor Singh serves as Clinical Associate in the Department of Psychiatry and Senior Research Fellow at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the rapid dissemination of evidence-based practice in the areas of mental health, corrections, and the law.Stål Bjørkly, PsyD, is Professor of Health Sciences and Social Care at Molde University College in Norway. Professor Bjørkly serves as Specialist Clinical Psychologist at Helse Sør-Øst in Oslo and maintains a private practice in Molde. His research focuses on the assessment and management of institutional and community violence, the relationship between psychosis and violence, and screening for violence risk in civil psychiatric settings.Seena Fazel, BSc(Hons), MBChB, MD, FRCPsych, is Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Oxford in England. Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and Honorary Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Professor Fazel's research focuses on violence risk assessment, the relationship between mental illness and violent crime, and the mental health of prisoners.

• Series Foreword AcknowledgmentsAbout the Editors ContributorsSection 1: Violence Risk Assessment: The International State of the Art1. An Introduction to the Assessment of Violence RiskNicholas Scurich2. Methodological Considerations in Risk Assessment ResearchSeena Fazel and Stål Bjørkly3. Adapting Risk Assessment Tools to New JurisdictionsVivienne de Vogel and Michiel de Vries Robbé4. Implementation of Violence Risk Assessment Instruments into Mental Healthcare SettingsQuazi Haque5. The Process and Context of Violence Risk Assessment: Toward Integrating Science into Clinical PracticeEric B. Elbogen6. Violence Risk Assessment Tools: A Systematic Review of SurveysClaudia C. Hurducas, Jay P. Singh, Corine de Ruiter, and John PetrilaSection 2: The International Risk Survey (IRiS): Global Findings7. The International Risk Survey (IRiS): Use and Perceived Utility of Structured Violence Risk Assessment Tools in 44 CountriesJay P. Singh, Sarah L. Desmarais, Randy K. Otto, Karen L. Petersen, Michelle M. Pritchard, and Tonia L. Nicholls8. Comparing Preferences for Actuarial vs. Structured Professional Judgment Violence Risk Assessment Measures across Five Continents: To What Extent is Practice is Keeping Pace with Science?Tonia L. Nicholls, Karen L. Petersen, and Michelle M. Pritchard9. Risk Communication: An International UpdateKirk Heilbrun, Rebecca Newsham, and Victoria Pietruszka10. Perceived Barriers to the Implementation of Violence Risk Assessment ToolsAdrian CreeSection 3: The International Risk Survey (IRiS): Country-Specific Findings11. Violence Risk Assessment in Latin AmericaJorge O. Folino, Daniella K. Villalba, and Jay P. Singh12. Recidivism Risk Assessment in Belgium: Clinical Practice, Research, and Legislative AspectsClaire Ducro and Thierry Pham13. Canadian Contributions to Violence Risk Assessment: Policy, Practice, and Future DirectionsAdam J. E. Blanchard, Kim A. Reeves, and Andrea L. Gibas14. Violence Risk Assessment in DenmarkLouise Hjort Nielsen, Sarah B. van Mastrigt, and Tine Wøbbe15. The Current Status of Sexual and Violent Recidivism and Risk Assessment Research in Germany and AustriaMartin Rettenberger16. Violence Risk Assessment in Hong KongRobyn Mei Yee Ho and Chor Kwan Yan 17. The Assessment of Violence Risk: The State-of-the-Art in MexicoVerónica Godoy-Cervera, Paulino Dzib, Isaac Aguilar Ortega, Daniella K. Villalba, and Jay P. Singh18. Risk Assessment in The NetherlandsCorine de Ruiter19. Violence Risk Assessment Practices in SpainKarin Arbach-Lucioni and Antonio Andrés-Pueyo20. Violence Risk Assessment in SwitzerlandSabine Hahn21. The Current State of Violence Risk Assessment in England and WalesMichael Doyle and Sarah-Jayne Leonard 22. Risk Assessment in the United StatesDavid DeMatteo, Stephanie Brooks Holliday, Meghann Galloway, and Unnati Patel23. Risk Assessment Practices for Sexual and Violent Offenders in IsraelRabeea Assy and Doron Menashe Appendix: Structured Instruments Commonly-used in Violence Risk AssessmentsStephanie Wilson, Jay P. Singh, Natascha Leech, and Tonia NichollsIndex

"Fusing leading-edge research with insights that come only from hard-earned clinical experience, Singh, Bjorkly, and Fazel have established violence risk assessment as a phenomenon of global reach. In International Perspectives on Violence Risk Assessment they and their collaborators authoritatively document the similarities and differences in approaches to forecasting harm across both cultural contexts and legal traditions. With any luck, thisremarkable book portends a surge of worldwide collaboration in both scholarly investigation and professional practice." --John Monahan, PhD, Shannon Distinguished Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology, and Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia