[BOOK][B] Rethinking risk assessment: The MacArthur study of mental disorder and violence

…, HJ Steadman, E Silver, PS Appelbaum, PC Robbins… - 2001 - books.google.com
The presumed link between mental disorder and violence has been the driving force behind
mental health law and policy for centuries. Legislatures, courts, and the public have come to …

Violence by people discharged from acute psychiatric inpatient facilities and by others in the same neighborhoods

…, EP Mulvey, J Monahan, PC Robbins… - Archives of general …, 1998 - jamanetwork.com
Background The public perception that mental disorder is strongly associated with violence
drives both legal policy (eg, civil commitment) and social practice (eg, stigma) toward people …

Prevalence of serious mental illness among jail inmates

HJ Steadman, FC Osher, PC Robbins… - Psychiatric …, 2009 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: This study estimated current prevalence rates of serious mental illness among
adult male and female inmates in five jails during two time periods (four jails in each period). …

Violence and delusions: Data from the MacArthur violence risk assessment study

PS Appelbaum, PC Robbins… - American journal of …, 2000 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
OBJECTIVE: Previous work has suggested that delusions are associated with a higher risk
of violence, particularly delusions in which patients believe that people are seeking to harm …

A classification tree approach to the development of actuarial violence risk assessment tools

…, E Silver, J Monahan, P Appelbaum, PC Robbins… - Law and human …, 2000 - Springer
Since the 1970s, a wide body of research has suggested that the accuracy of clinical risk
assessments of violence might be increased if clinicians used actuarial tools. Despite …

Dimensional approach to delusions: comparison across types and diagnoses

PS Appelbaum, PC Robbins… - American Journal of …, 1999 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
OBJECTIVE: A dimensional approach to the characterization of delusions was used to
examine the use of non-content-related descriptors of delusions in revealing differences across …

Assessing the New York City involuntary outpatient commitment pilot program

…, B Roche, M Swartz, PC Robbins - Psychiatric …, 2001 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
OBJECTIVE: The study evaluated the effectiveness of a three-year outpatient commitment
pilot program established in 1994 at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. METHODS: A total of …

An actuarial model of violence risk assessment for persons with mental disorders

J Monahan, HJ Steadman, PC Robbins… - Psychiatric …, 2005 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
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 …

Effect of mental health courts on arrests and jail days: A multisite study

…, A Redlich, L Callahan, PC Robbins… - Archives of general …, 2011 - jamanetwork.com
… S Rearrest and linkage to mental health services among clients of the Clark County
mental health court program. … Steadman HJ, Redlich A, Callahan L, Robbins PC and …

Mental disorder, violence, and gender

PC Robbins, J Monahan, E Silver - Law and human behavior, 2003 - Springer
Recent studies have reported comparable rates of violence among men and women with
mental disorder, raising important issues for clinical risk assessment. This study examines the …