Author: Alfred B. Heilbrun
Publisher: University Press of America
Keywords: violence, risk, dangerousness, criminal
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 1996-10-04
List price: $46.50
ISBN-10: 0761804099
ISBN-13: 9780761804093

This book is a new theoretical model of criminal dangerousness with special reference to the prediction of violence. The model proposes that criminal violence evolves from the combination of deviant social values that limit the constraints upon lawful behavior (antisociality) and cognitive deficits that interfere with effective planning of crimes and with the conduct of criminal transactions with the victims (impaired cognition). A program of research is used to consider the validity of the criminal dangerousness model as well as empirical tests of the theory’s assumptions and the issues

Author: Caroline Knowles
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
Keywords: dangerousness, normality, invention, boundaries, family
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 1997-01-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 155111108X
ISBN-13: 9781551111087

’Family Boundaries’ shows what can be accomplished when families are viewed from the multi-perspectives of biography and of agencies charged with detecting and managing child abuse and setting boundaries of acceptable behaviour in family life. Apart from our personal notions of the family, a social sense of it has developed from the professional practice - narratives which focus on dangerousness, thus rendering the family in rather rigid and archaic administrative terms. Furthermore, these administrative inventions of the family and the resulting attempts to effect child protection

Author: Christopher Slobogin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: law, american, dangerousness, psychology, society, culpability, speculation, unprovable, role, science, proving, adjudicating
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2006-09-07
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0195189957
ISBN-13: 9780195189957

"In Proving the Unprovable, Professor Slobogin has done the undoable; he has produced a probing critique of the legal rules for admitting expert mental health testimony that had me turning the pages as if it were a suspense novel. After trenchantly analyzing current stands for admissibility, he suggests innovative approaches to protect the reasonable contributions that mental health experts can make. I doubt that any expert, no matter how experienced, who reads this book will view his or her task on the witness stand in quite the same way again."--Paul S. Appelbaum, MD, Professor of Psychiatry

Author: David McCallum
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: personality, disorder, antisocial, genealogies, dangerousness
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2001-10-22
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0521008751
ISBN-13: 9780521008754

Tracing the history of the category of antisocial personality disorder, this study reveals its emergence is linked to particular kinds of governing, rather than simply to advances in the human sciences or a means of social control. David McCallum examines key legal and institutional developments in Australia, the U.K, and the U.S. as well as parallel developments within psychiatry and psychological medicine. Applying a social theoretical analysis to this material, he challenges our assumptions about the formation and control concepts of dangerousness and personality.