Citation

Scott CL, Resnick PJ. Aggress. Violent Behav. 2006; 11(6): 598-611.

Affiliation

Division of Psychiatry and the Law, 2230 Stockton Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95817, University of California, Davis, United States; Division of Forensic Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, United States.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.avb.2005.12.003

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

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 commitments, emergency psychiatric evaluations, seclusion and restraint release decisions, inpatient care discharges, probation/parole decisions, death penalty evaluations, domestic violence interventions, fitness for duty evaluations, and after a threat is made. This article provides an overview regarding the assessment of dangerousness in both adults and juveniles and a summary of recent research regarding the relationship of mental illness to violence.