This document is intended as a review of legal and psychiatric factors to give practical
guidance and assistance in the performance of competence to stand trial evaluations. This …

Sexual victimization of children and adults is a significant treatment and public policy problem
in the United States. To address increasing concerns regarding sex offender recidivism, …

Understanding the unique needs of school nurses is crucial for developing strategies to
increase use of evidence-based health care practices in schools. This article describes the …

Although the construct of psychopathy is related to community violence and recidivism in
various populations, empirical evidence suggests that its association with institutional …

… Graham D Glancy, Peter Ash, Erica Pj Bath, Alec Buchanan, Paul Fedoroff, Richard L
Frierson, Victoria L Harris, Susan J Hatters Friedman, Mark J Hauser, James Knoll, Mike …

Mental health clinicians are often asked to determine an individual's risk of future violence.
Dangerous assessments are required in a wide variety of situations that include involuntary …

Objective: This study examined factors motivating inpatient aggression in a sample of
chronically assaultive state hospital patients. Methods: Inpatients who had committed three or …

California’s prisons are currently designed to house approximately 85,000 inmates. At the
time of the US Supreme Court’s 2011 decision in Brown v. Plata, the California prison system …

Actuarial violence risk assessments, many of which include the construct of psychopathy,
have been shown to be superior to clinical judgment in the prediction of long‐term risk of …

Incentives to malinger vary greatly dependent on the context, as does the prevalence.
Malingering in the medico-legal context of the criminal courts is generally for one of two purposes: …