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New. 0415268907. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED--Softbound. 304 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. --TABLE OF CONTENTS: List of Figures * List of Tables * List of Contributors * Introduction 1 * A Risk Assessment 5 * 1 Risk assessment: Review of psychometric measures 7 * 2 Toward a scientific foundation of sex offender risk assessment 23 * 3 Clinical practice and violence risk assessment: Availability of MacArthur risk cues in psychiatric settings 38 * 4 The 'risky' business of child abuse assessment in British Columbia 56 * 5 Assessing and managing risk among mentally disordered offenders in Northern Ireland 67 * 6 Implementing risk assessment procedures in a forensic psychiatric setting: Clinical judgement revisited 83 * B Sex Offenders and Offences 103 * 7 Clinical, legal and ethical issues for mental health professionals in implementing a sexual predator law in the United States 105 * 8 Special legal requirements for competent forensic assessments of questionable 'Recovered Memories' of childhood sexual abuse in criminal trials 123 * 9 Delays in reporting childhood sexual abuse and implications for legal proceedings 138 * 10 Developing a descriptive model of the offence chains of New Zealand rapists: Taxonomic implications 153 * 11 Situational factors in sexual offending 175 * C Violent Offenders and Offences 195 * 12 Violent crime and offending trajectories in the course of life: An empirical life-span developmental typology of criminal careers 197 * 13 Can police prevent domestic violence? 210 * 14 Mutilation-murder cases in Japan 229 * 15 Chasing ghosts: Offender profiling and terrorism 242 * 16 Imprisonment for homicide: European perspectives concerning human rights 259 * Index 281. *--with a bonus offer--