Violence Risk Assessment and Management

摘要

If you want an up-to-date review of the violence risk assessment field by two of its most notable contributors, this is the book for you. Chris Webster, a distinguished Canadian psychologist, has been essential to the development of the structured professional judgement approach to clinical risk assessment whereby practitioners are supported in their evaluation and decision making around risk by guidelines such as the HCR-20 (Webster et al., 1997). Steve Hucker, another distinguished Canadian and a psychiatrist by trade, has contributed significantly during his long career to the violence and sexual violence fields and also to the organisation and management of forensic mental health services. With such credentials, the range of their collaborative efforts was bound to be both broad and considered, and it is.