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Joel Dvoskin

University of Arizona College of Medicine
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On the role of correctional officers in prison mental health

JA Dvoskin, EM Spiers - Psychiatric quarterly, 2004 - Springer
This article discusses the role of correctional line staff in treatment of prison inmates with
serious mental illness. The authors assert that many roles and duties traditionally attributed to …

Risk assessment and release decision-making: Toward resolving the great debate

JA Dvoskin, K Heilbrun - … ACADEMY OF PSYCHIATRY AND THE LAW, 2001 - ojp.gov
The authors recommend that the safest way to return someone from confinement to freedom
is in increments of decreased structure and increased freedom. As the likelihood, severity, …

Statement of concerned experts on the use of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist—Revised in capital sentencing to assess risk for institutional violence.

…, KS Douglas, JA Dvoskin… - … , Public Policy, and …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Psychopathy as measured by the Hare Psychopathy Checklist—Revised (PCL–R; Hare,
1991, 2003) is related to a range of rule-breaking and antisocial behaviors. Given this …

A brief history of the criminalization of mental illness

JA Dvoskin, JL Knoll, M Silva - CNS spectrums, 2020 - cambridge.org
This article traces the history of the way in which mental disorders were viewed and treated,
from before the birth of Christ to the present day. Special attention is paid to the process of …

Using intensive case management to reduce violence by mentally ill persons in the community

JA Dvoskin, HJ Steadman - Psychiatric Services, 1994 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Aggressive and intensive case management and a comprehensive array of community
support services are the keys to reducing the risk of violence by people with serious mental …

[BOOK][B] Evaluation for personal injury claims

AW Kane, JA Dvoskin - 2011 - books.google.com
… Kane and Dvoskin offer a concise description of a range of issues relevant to the forensic
evaluation of personal injury claims. They cover the foundational tort law under which such …

[BOOK][B] Using social science to reduce violent offending

JA Dvoskin - 2012 - books.google.com
… Nevertheless, visits to prisons by one of the editors (Dvoskin) in more than half of the
nation’s states have yet to reveal a program that appropriately and systematically applies …

Architectural design of a secure forensic state psychiatric hospital

JA Dvoskin, SJ Radomski, C Bennett… - … sciences & the law, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
This article describes the architectural design of a secure forensic state psychiatric hospital.
The project combined input from staff at all levels of the client organization, outside …

[PDF][PDF] Intermediate Care Programs for lnmates with Psychiatric Disorders

WS Condelli, JA Dvoskin, H Holanchock - Journal of the American …, 1994 - Citeseer
Ward S. Condelli, Ph. D., Joel A. Dvoskin, Ph. D., and Howard Holanchock, MA lnmates with
psychiatric disorders are a growing and difficult to manage population in federal and state …

Pilot implementation and preliminary evaluation of START: AV assessments in secure juvenile correctional facilities

…, KR Cruise, TL Nicholls, JA Dvoskin - … journal of forensic …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability: Adolescent Version (START:AV) is a
new structured professional judgment guide for assessing short-term risks in adolescents. The …