Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Prologue -- REFERENCES -- INTRODUCTION 1. Clinical Assessment of Dangerousness: An Overview of the Literature -- Dangerousness: Clinical Concept and Operationalized Variable -- The Link -- Prediction -- Components of the Risk Assessment Equation -- Sociodemographic Factors -- Historical Factors -- Situational Factors -- Mental Status as a Risk Factor -- Substance Abuse -- Biological Factors -- Assessment of Risk Factors -- Clinical Issues in the Assessment of Dangerousness -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- 2. Biology, Development, and Dangerousness -- Introduction -- Behavioral Domains of Dangerousness and Biological Processes -- Models for Considering Biological Processes and Antisocial Behavior -- Current Developmental Models and Antisocial Behavior -- Specific Models for Considering Biology and Violence -- Biological Systems and Antisocial Behavior -- Endocrine System and Antisocial Behavior -- Gonadal Steroids and Antisocial Behavior -- Neurotransmitters -- Clinical Implications -- REFERENCES -- 3. The Development of Physical Aggression During Childhood and the Prediction of Later Dangerousness -- When Does Violent Behavior Start? -- The Adolescent Years -- The Middle Childhood Years -- The Preschool Years -- Does Childhood Physical Aggression Predict Adolescent or Adult Physical Violence? -- Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- 4. Predicting Adult Official and Self-Reported Violence -- Previous Relevant Research -- The Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development -- Information on Offending -- Violent Offenses -- Previous Analyses of Violence -- Behavioral Predictors -- Explanatory Predictors -- Multivariate Analyses -- Risk Scores -- Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- 5. Major Mental Disorder and Violence: Epidemiology and Risk Assessment.

The Epidemiology of Violence Among People with Mental Disorder -- Risk Assessment of Violence Among People with Mental Disorder -- Future Directions -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- 6. Axis II Disorders and Dangerousness -- Introduction -- Personality Disorders with Increased Dangerousness -- Antisocial Personality Disorder -- Borderline Personality Disorder -- Histrionic Personality Disorder -- Narcissistic Personality Disorder -- Paranoid Personality Disorder -- Short-Term Prediction of Dangerousness -- Sources of Information -- Degree of Formulation -- Intent -- Availability of Victims -- Weapons -- History of Violence, Suicide, and Other Impulsive Behaviors -- Psychosis -- Alcohol Use and Substance Abuse -- Organicity -- Background of the Patient -- Compliance with Treatment -- Threats of Violence Toward Clinicians -- Summary of Prediction of Dangerousness -- REFERENCES -- 7. Recidivistic Violent Behavior and Axis I and Axis II Disorders -- Studies on the Association of Mental Disorders and Recidivistic Violent Behavior -- Recidivistic Violent Behavior among Persons without Major Mental Disorders -- Clinical Predictors and Prevention of Recidivistic Violent Behavior -- Subjects with Major Mental Disorders -- Subjects without Major Mental Disorders -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- 8. Risk Assessment for Intimate Partner Homicide -- Review of Literature -- Relationship between Victim and Perpetrator in Intimate Partner Homicide -- Perpetrators -- Weapons -- Homicide-Suicide and Domestic Femicide -- Substance Abuse and Other Mental Illness -- Summary of Risk Factors and Implications for Risk Assessment -- Recidivism and Lethality Risk Domestic Violence Instruments -- SARA, K-SID, and DA Instruments -- Danger Assessment -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- 9. Parents at Risk of Filicide -- Introduction -- Characteristics of Victims -- Age of Victim.

Sex of Victim -- Obstetric Risk Factors -- Parents at Risk of Neonaticide -- Parents at Risk of Filicide -- Mothers or Fathers? -- Stepfathers? -- Filicide Typologies -- Characteristics of Abusive Parents Who Kill -- Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy -- What Makes a Parent a Fatal Child Abuser? -- The Role of Mental Illness -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- 10. Parricide -- The Incidence of Parricide -- Perpetrators and Their Victims -- Parricide as a Response to Child Abuse -- Other Possible Risk Factors -- Parricide as a Family Conspiracy -- Mental Illness and Parricide -- The Antisocial Parricide Perpetrator -- Economically Motivated Parricides -- Conclusion: Assessing the Risk of Parricide -- REFERENCES -- 11. Alcohol and Dangerousness -- Criminal Behavior and Drinking -- Prohibition, Alcohol, and Crime -- Post-Prohibition Studies of Crime and Alcohol -- Alcohol-Related Crimes -- Alcoholism and Antisocial Behavior -- Conceptual Issues and Discussion -- REFERENCES -- 12. Violence and Substance Abuse -- Introduction -- Theoretical Assumptions -- Who Are the Violent Substance Abusers, and Where Does Violence Occur? -- The Social Conditions Under Which Violence and Substance Abuse Occur -- Psychopharmacological Violence -- Economic Crime and Violence Within Drug Markets -- Systemic Violence -- A Note on Gender, Substance Abuse, and Violence -- Summary/Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- 13. Threats, Stalking, and Criminal Harassment -- Definitions -- Threatening Communications -- Limitations of Threat Research -- Evaluating Threatening Communications -- Stalking and Criminal Harassment -- Demographics -- Typologies -- Psychiatric Diagnoses -- Victims -- Pursuit Characteristics -- Stalking Motivations -- Violence -- Concluding Remarks -- REFERENCES -- 14. Discussion and Clinical Commentary on Issues in the Assessment and Prediction of Dangerousness.

Sociodemographic Data -- Medical History -- Psychiatric History -- History of Violent and Criminal Behavior -- Consumption of Substances -- Personal History -- Educational and Professional History -- Relational and Social History -- Psychosexual History -- Developmental Psychopathology -- Characteristics of Violent Acts -- Risk Management Strategies -- REFERENCES -- Index.