Assessing Dangerousness: Violence by Sexual Offenders, Batterers and Child Abusers (Interpersonal Violence: The Practice Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803937474 ISBN 13: 9780803937475

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1994

Synopsis

Research and clinical expertise are brought together in this practical volume to examine whether the following violence can be predicted

: battered women being killed by their partners; battered women killing their partners; children being physically and/or sexually abused; and sexual offenders and batterers re-offending. Following an introduction to theoretical and clinical issues involved in the prediction of violence, the contributors present research and theory in language that is accessible to clinicians. They discuss accurate measurement using tested instruments, the role of clinical observations, and health and judicial implications.

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"Dr. Jonas has been a voice in the wilderness preaching sense about both health and health services for years. He clearly identifies the problems and issues facing the system and its beneficiaries, based upon the evidence he has carefully marshaled for the reader...and he challenges the reader to make sense out of the facts, understanding the evidence within a historical and international context, and come up with judgments on needed changes and how to go about making them, starting with the facts which he so generously provides you."
--From the Foreword by Anthony R. Kovner, PhD Professor of Health Policy and Management New York University

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Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0803937474
• ISBN 13: 9780803937475
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Campbell Jacquelyn C.