Dangerous people : policy, prediction, and practice / edited by Bernadette McSherry and Patrick Keyzer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Dangerous" people : an overview / Bernadette McSherry and Patrick Keyzer -- An international human rights perspective on detention without criminal charge or trial / Ronli Sifris -- The international human rights parameters for the preventive detention of serious sex offenders / Patrick Keyzer -- Legal limitations on the scope of preventive detention / Christopher Slobogin -- Sexual offender commitment laws in the USA : the inevitable failure of misusing civil commitment to prevent further sex crimes / John Q. La Fond -- Sexually violent predator laws : going back to a time better forgotten / John Petrila -- Sexual violence, gender politics and outsider jurisprudence : lessons learned from the American experience in prevention / Eric S. Janus -- The preventive detention of insanity acquitees : a case study from Victoria / Ian Freckelton -- The Preventive detention of suspected terrorists : better safe than sorry? / Bernadette McSherry -- Toward research-informed policy for high risk offenders with severe mental illnesses / Jennifer Skeem, Jillian Peterson, and Eric Silver -- Assessing and managing violent youth : implications for sentencing / Lorraine Johnstone -- Violence risk assessment : challenging the illusion of certainty / David J. Cooke and Christine Michie -- The role of forensic mental health services in managing high risk offenders : functioning or failing? / Lindsay Thomson -- "Case managing high risk offenders with mental disorders in Scotland' / Alex Quinn and John Crichton -- The Scottish approach to high risk offenders : early answers or further questions? / Innes Fyfe and Yvonne Gailey -- The assessment and sentencing of high risk offenders in Scotland : a forensic clinical perspective / Rajan Darjee and Katharine Russell -- Managing high risk personality disordered offenders : lessons learned to date / Caroline Logan -- "Dangerous" People : the road ahead for policy, prediction and practice / Bernadette McSherry and Patrick Keyzer.

"Experienced legal academics and mental health professionals explore the current approaches to 'dangerousness' and preventive detention. The defining characteristics of those deemed dangerous by society vary according to culture, place, and time, and the contributors to this text have gathered to analyze the policies and practices related to current out-groups such as sex offenders, suspected terrorists, and young offenders in the United States, Scotland, England, and Australia. Dangerous People is the result of their research, workshopping, and writing. The text is organized logically and begins with a section on Parameters that explores the international human rights and legal limitations related to preventive detention schemes. It moves on to Policy, where contributors examine legislative policy, and Prediction, or risk assessment, especially in terms of violent crimes in youth. The section on Practice focuses on recent schemes to prevent re-offending. This text is indispensable as a resource that deals with the practical issues surrounding preventive detention and supervision schemes, the assessment of the risk of future harm in offenders, and different programs and sentencing options for high-risk offenders with mental illnesses. It contains case examples that bring real-life issues to light and sets forth an agenda to provide effective ways to protect communities from harm"--Provided by publisher.

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