John Monahan

TL;DR: In an article for a symposium issue of the Cincinnati Law Review on the thirtieth anniversary of the Tarasoff decision, finding therapists potentially liable in tort for the violent acts of their patients, this paper addressed two types of change that have occurred in the past three decades: change in the science of violence risk assessment, and change in American mental health policy.

TL;DR: Most four-year colleges in Virginia, both public and private, occasionally invoke a variety of protective interventions to respond to apparent mental health crises experienced by students, but the number of students annually affected by these policies is generally small.

TL;DR: The results suggest that it may be possible to target soldiers at high-risk of violence perpetration for preventive interventions, although final decisions about such interventions would require weighing predicted effectiveness against intervention costs and competing risks.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors tested whether risk assessment information interacts with a defendant's socioeconomic class to influence judges' sentencing decisions, and found that risk assessment may have transformed low socioeconomic status from a circumstance that reduced the likelihood of incarceration (by mitigating perceived blameworthiness) to a factor that increased the likelihood for incarceration, by increasing perceived risk.