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Provides comprehensive coverage on recidivism risk/needs assessment tools Correctional and healthcare professionals around the world utilize structured instruments referred to as risk/needs assessment tools to predict the likelihood that an offender will recidivate. Such tools have been found to provide accurate and reliable evaluations and are widely used to assess, manage, and monitor offenders both institutionally as well as in the community. By identifying offenders in need of different levels of intervention, examining causal risk factors, and individualizing case management plans, risk/needs assessment tools have proven invaluable in addressing the public health issue of recidivism. Re...
International Perspectives on Violence Risk Assessment includes chapters by leading risk assessment scholars in more than 15 countries and explores the topic from a truly international outlook. Using findings from the seminal International Risk Survey (IRiS), the largest qualitative study in the history of the field, current assessment, management, and monitoring practices on six continents are explored.
This book represents a comprehensive collection of theoretical and empirical work at the nexus of clinical and forensic psychology written by world-renowned experts in the field. It is among the first books in the field to focus entirely on clinical psychological science applied to the understanding and treatment of offending. Part I addresses the main theoretical and clinical models used to explain and predict antisocial behavior, spanning biological, cognitive, experimental, individual differences, and interpersonal perspectives. Part II focuses on forms of psychopathology associated with an increased tendency to offend, with the emphasis on describing the clinical constructs most relevant...
Gampel investigates the anti-Jewish riots in 1391-2 in the lands of Castile and Aragon.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, VAMR 2017, held as part of HCI International 2017 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. HCII 2017 received a total of 4340 submissions, of which 1228 papers were accepted for publication after a careful reviewing process. The 45 papers presented in this volume were organized in topical sections named: developing virtual and augmented environments; interaction techniques in VAMR; VAMR in education and training; virtual worlds and games; user experience in VAMR; and health issues in VR.
La Criminología Aplicada se ha extendido a numerosos campos relacionados con la violencia, apareciendo como un área de especialización con identidad propia. El lector descubrirá en los primeros capítulos una de las especialidades de la Criminología Aplicada, la que se orienta a la investigación criminal, sin ser esta su única meta, y destacándose la intervención en terrorismo y la Perfilación Criminal. Esta última se muestra desde perspectivas más clásicas como la Psicología Investigativa y la Perfilación Geográfica, pero teniendo también en cuenta nuevas formas de perfilado más actuales, como el que se está llevando a cabo en México a día de hoy. Un análisis crítico ...
The evolution of healthcare delivery systems has included an increased reliance on technology. There has been a significant shift in the nature of care prevention, diagnosis and treatment, which has decreased the importance of traditional methods of care delivery. Cybertherapy has started to make progress in treating a variety of disorders, but more work is needed in a number of areas, including the development of easy-to-use and more affordable hardware and software and objective measurement tools, the need to address potential side-effects, and the implementation of more controlled studies to evaluate cybertherapy in comparison to traditional therapies._x000D_ This book, the 2014 Annual Re...
This book summarizes the works and new research results presented at the First International Symposium on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services (KES-IIMSS 2008), organized by the University of Piraeus and its Depa- ment of Informatics in conjunction with KES International (Piraeus, Greece, July 9–11, 2008). The aim of the symposium was to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research into the technologies and applications of intelligent int- active multimedia systems and services. Besides the Preface, the book contains sixty four (64) chapters. The first four (4) chapters in the book are printed versions of the keynote addresses of the invited speakers of KES-IIMSS 2008. Besides the invited speaker chapters, the book contains fifteen (15) chapters on recent Advances in Multimedia Data Analysis, eleven (11) chapters on Reasoning Approaches, nine (9) chapters on Infrastructure of Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services, fourteen (14) chapters on Multimedia Applications, and eleven (11) chapters on Quality of Interactive Multimedia Services.
Este libro representa el panorama más actualizado de Ia Psicología Jurídica, Criminológica y Forense en América Latina. Para crearlo, el Director de Ia obra convocó investigadores de 40 instituciones (universidades, fiscalías, poderes judiciales y centros de investigación) de Alemania, Argentina, Canadá, Chile, Colombia, España, Estados Unidos y México. Científicos del comportamiento humano (psicólogos, neuropsicólogos y neurofisiólogos), juristas expertos y forenses de rotunda experiencia, analizan conceptos y aplicaciones a poblaciones específicas, como los agresores sexuales, los adolescentes en conflicto con Ia ley penal y los psicópatas. Además, se analizan temas selec...