… to exaggerate or minimize – whereas a forensic examinee’s response style may be influenced
by a desire to achieve the best possible outcome for himself or herself (Heilbrun 2001). In …

… the evaluation of forensic mental health assessment (FMHA) is quite important as a
broad principle in forensic assessment, including risk assessment done in forensic contexts (Heilbrun…

A meta-analysis was conducted to identify risk factors that best predict juvenile recidivism,
defined as rearrest for offending of any kind. Twenty-three published studies, representing …

Community-based alternatives to conviction and imprisonment for adult offenders with severe
mental illness are receiving increasing attention from researchers and policy makers. After …

Most of the literature in forensic mental health assessment is organized around the particular
legal issue that is the focus of a given assessment, tool, or research study. This book starts …

Despite the apparent widespread use of psychological tests in evaluations performed by
psychologists to assist legal decision makers, there has been little critical but balanced …

Beginning in the 1950s and continuing to the present, clinical and counseling psychologists
have become integral to the provision of assessment and therapeutic services in correctional…

OBJECTIVES: An actuarial model was developed in the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment
Study to predict violence in the community among patients who have recently been …

… Kirk Heilbrun has no grandchildren (for the discerning among you, this may explain why he
had the time to be first author of this volume). But he would like to thank his wife, Patty Griffin, …

Psychopathy is a condition with important consequences both for individuals who experience
it and for the communities in which they live. Although the assessment of psychopathy …