Criminal justice, mental health and the politics of risk / edited by Nicola Gray, Judith Laing, Lesley Noaks.

Risk: The Professional, The Individual, Society and the Law -- Section 1. Risk Assessment in Mental Health and Professional Responsibility -- Risk Management in the Real World -- Psychopathy and Risk for Recidivism and Violence -- The Ethics of Clinical Risk Assessment and Management: Developing Law and The Role of Mental Health Professionals -- Section 2. Risk Management and the Law -- Radical Risk Management, Mental Health and Criminal Justice -- Balancing Rights and Risks: Dilemmas of Justice and Difference -- Risky Money: Regulating Financial Crime -- Section 3. Risk in Social Contexts -- The Language and Technologies of Risk -- Public Protection, Partnership and Risk Penality: The Multi-Agency Risk Management of Sexual and Violent Offenders -- Riskiness and At-Risk-Ness: Some Ambiguous Features of the Current Penal Landscape.