Kevin S. Douglas, LLB, PhD, is Professor of Clinical-Forensic Psychology at Simon Fraser University; Researcher at Helse Bergen HF Competence Centre in Forensic Psychiatry; and Senior Research Advisor at the Oslo University Hospital Competence Centre in Forensic Psychiatry.

Randy K. Otto, PhD, ABPP, has been a faculty member at the University of South Florida since 1989. His primary appointment is in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, and he has adjunct appointments in the Departments of Psychology and Criminology.

List of contributors; Foreword; Introduction and Overview; Part 1: Core Themes and Critical Analysis of the Field; 1. Approaches to Violence Risk Assessment: Overview, Critical Analysis, and Future Directions; 2. The Use of Measures of Psychopathy in Violence Risk Assessment; 3. Brief and Emerging Violence Risk Assessment Measures; 4. Constitutional and Evidentiary Issues Concerning Risk Assessment;Part 2: Empirical-Actuarial Measures; 5. The Classification of Violence Risk (COVR); 6. The Static-99R: An Empirical-Actuarial Risk Tool for Adult Males with a History of Sexual Offending; 7. Actuarial Guides for Appraising the Risk of Violent Reoffending Among General Offenders, Sex Offenders, and Domestic Assaulters;Part 3: Rational-Actuarial Measures; 8. Risk/Need Assessment for Adults and Older Adolescents: The Level of Service (LS) Instruments; 9. The Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory; 10. Two Treatment and Change Oriented Risk Assessment Tools: The Violence Risk Scale (VRS) and Violence Risk Scale-Sexual Offense Version (VRS-SO);Part 4: Structured Professional Judgment Measures; 11. The Early Assessment Risk Lists for Boys (EARL-20B) and Girls (EARL-21G); 12. The Science of and Practice with the HCR-20V3 (Historical-Clinical-Risk Management - 20, Version 3); 13. The Juvenile Sex Offender Assessment Protocol-II (J-SOAP-II); 14. Structured Professional Judgment Guidelines for Sexual Violence Risk Assessment: The Sexual Violence Risk-20 (SVR-20) Versions 1 and 2 and Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol (RSVP); 15. Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability (START); 16. The Spousal Assault Risk Assessment Guide (SARA); 17. The Structured Assessment of Protective Factors for Violence Risk (SAPROF); 18. The Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY); Index