@article{ref1,
title="Personality disorder and violence: understand violence risk: an introduction to the special section personality disorder and violence",
journal="Journal of personality disorders",
year="2010",
author="Cooke, David John",
volume="24",
number="5",
pages="539-550",
abstract="This paper introduces the Special Section on personality disorder and violence. The first paper evaluates the impact of removing the Psychopathy Checklist (PCL-R) as a mandatory element of a major approach to the assessment of violence risk-the HCR-20. The second paper considers violence to self as well as violence to others; it examines the influence of dysfunctional personality traits in a sample of female offenders. The third paper provides a systematic framework for risk formulation, discussing how to bridge the gap between nomothetic research and the individual case. This paper concludes by arguing that there is a need to shift perspective from asking &quot;what?&quot; dysfunctional traits are relevant to future violence to &quot;why?&quot; are particular traits relevant. The &quot;why?&quot; question is particularly germane in the forensic arena where expert testimony must endeavor to provide a causal explanation of risk processes at the level of the individual.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0885-579X",
doi="10.1521/pedi.2010.24.5.539",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/pedi.2010.24.5.539"
}