Main description:

Outlines current practice in an accessible and clear format and discusses major critiques as well as the ways in which current practice might be developed to improve public protection

Rejects the idea that clinical assessments of risk are generally ineffective and stresses the role of environmental context

Offers insight into the ways in which current practice might be improved and calls for greater analysis and methodological rigor

Contents:

Introduction

1. Key Issues in Risk

2. The Language of Risk

3. Current Practice in Risk: Actuarial and Algorithmic Approaches

4. Current Practice in Risk: Structured Clinical Judgement Approaches

5. Critiques of Current Practice: Socio-Legal Perspectives

6. Critiques of Current Practice: Risk Analysis Perspectives

7. Critiques of Current Practice: Psychological Perspectives

8. Dealing with Risk Better: Analysis and Treatment of Risks

9. Dealing with Risk Better: Probabilistic Risk Assessment

10. Dealing with Risk Better: Changing the Environment