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The MacArthur studies of violence risk
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This article is published in Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health.The article was published on 2002-11-01. It has received 33 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Poison control & Suicide prevention.read more
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Risk Assessment in Offenders With Intellectual Disability: A Comparison Across Three Levels of Security
William R. Lindsay,Todd Hogue,John L. Taylor,Lesley Steptoe,Paul Mooney,Gregory O'Brien,Susan Johnston,Anne H. W. Smith +7 more
TL;DR: Male offenders with intellectual disabilities from high-, medium-, and low-security settings, as well as community settings, were compared on a range of risk assessments, finding significant areas under the curve for the prediction of violence.
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Treatment engagement and violence risk in mental disorders.
TL;DR: Clinical consideration of patients' perceptions of treatment benefit can help enhance violence risk assessment in psychiatric practice settings, according to a nationwide sample of adults receiving out-patient treatment for a psychiatric disorder.
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Risk Assessment: Actuarial Prediction and Clinical Judgement of Offending Incidents and Behaviour for Intellectual Disability Services
William R. Lindsay,Nigel Beail +1 more
TL;DR: This work reviews work on actuarial instruments, dynamic variables, clinical judgement and structured clinical judgement, and the importance of dynamic variables for inclusion in risk prediction.
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Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
TL;DR: The third edition of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing continues to deliver students and lecturers an authoritative and accessible approach to mental health nursing, with a strong focus on evidence-based practice and recent research.
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Paranoid thinking, suspicion, and risk for aggression: a neurodevelopmental perspective.
Erin B. Tone,Jennifer S. Davis +1 more
TL;DR: By examining data regarding the behavioral and neural correlates of varied cognitive processes that are likely components of a paranoid thinking style, this article hopes to advance both theoretical and empirical research in this domain.
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Rethinking Risk Assessment: The MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence
John Monahan,Henry J. Steadman,Eric Silver,Paul S. Appelbaum,Pamela Clark Robbins,Edward P. Mulvey,Loren H. Roth,Thomas Grisso,Steven M. Banks +8 more
TL;DR: Rethinking Risk Assessment as discussed by the authors is a pioneering investigation that challenges preconceptions about the frequency and nature of violence among persons with mental disorders, and suggests an innovative approach to predicting its occurrence.
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Better decisions through science.
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Criminal behaviour and mental disorder.
TL;DR: The main problem in discussing any relation ship between criminal behaviour and mental disorder is that the two concepts are largely unrelated as mentioned in this paper, and it would be surprising if such a mélange had a clear-cut relationship with any social parameter, specially one which is arbitrarily determined by legislation.
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Judicial decision thresholds for violence risk management
John Monahan,Eric Silver +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a survey was conducted asking 26 judges where they would set the decision threshold for instituting short-term civil commitment as a “danger to others.” The five risk assessment options communicated to the judges were the Risk Classes obtained in the MacArthur Study.
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Commentary: Dangerous patients or dangerous diseases?
Pamela J. Taylor,John Monahan +1 more
TL;DR: If most of society can remain untroubled by schizophrenia, however, the 1% or so of the population that suffer from it, their families, and the victims of those few schizophrenic people who become violent deserve more than reassurances about probabilities.