Rethinking Risk Assessment

• 1: Violence Risk Assessment: The Law and the Science2: Violence Among Patients in the Community3: Testing "Criminological" Risk Factors4: Testing "Clinical" Risk Factors5: Customizing Risk Assessment6: Combining Customized Risk Assessment to Produce the Best Estimate of Risk7: Violence and the Clinician: Assessing and Managing RiskAppendix A. The MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study: MethodsAppendix B. Risk Factors and Associations with Violence

"The MacArthur study is set to become the gold standard for research in this area . . . we can only hope that the impressive research reported in this book has the impact it deserves."