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Workplace Violence Risk Analysis:
Effective Prediction and Intervention Strategies
 Harold V. Hall, Ph.D., ABPP
and David A. Pritchard, Ph.D.
(2nd edition in preparation, available in
2006)
Workplace violence has increased in recent years beyond
all expectations. The number two cause of death for women in
the workplace, for example, is homicide. Workplace
Violence Risk Analysis: Effective Prediction and
Intervention Strategies provides a focused view of
several types of violence---from the disgruntled employee to
the perpetrator of domestic violence whose rage spills over
into the workplace. The book is aimed at administrative
supervisors, human resources staff, vocational counselors,
as well as mental health and forensic professionals.
Methamphetamine Use:
Clinical and Forensic Aspects
 Errol Yudko, Ph.D., Sandra B. McPherson, Ph.D., ABPP, Harold V. Hall, Ph.D., ABPP
(For a discount, please use Promotion Code 731HA when
ordering
this book from Taylor and Francis CRC Press
.)
Written by a multidisciplinary team of experts, Methamphetamine Use: Clinical and Forensic Aspects examines MA use and abuse from clinical, forensic, and criminal justice perspectives. It is the first to cover virtually every aspect, reviewing the history, pharmacology, pathology, physiology, treatment, and evidentiary value of MA and its use. It addresses Daubert considerations and victim/witness credibility, competency to confess and to stand trial, criminal responsibility, extreme emotion as mitigation to murder, and dangerousness. It also details statutes and case law to represent perspectives of both the prosecution and the defense.
Terrorism
Strategies for Intervention
Edited by Harold V. Hall, Ph.D, ABPP
An essential resource for anyone working against terrorism in any form it may take. Written for threat assessment professionals in the post-9/11 era, this timely book will help you understand the motivation to commit acts of terror, the thinking patters common to many terrorists, the psychology of Muslim fundamentalists, methods for predicting the likelihood of chemical/biological attacks, and a great deal more. You'll learn about hostage/barricade situations and the role of the crisis negotiator, including victim/perpetrator psychology and factors that indicate progress is being made in a crisis negotiation and factors that imply imminent lethality.
Collective
Violence:
Effective Strategies for Assessing and Intervening
in Fatal Group and Institutional Aggression
Edited
by Harold V. Hall, Ph.D, ABPP, and Leighton C.
Whitaker, Ph.D., ABPP
(For a discount, please use Promotion Code 731HA when
ordering
this book from Taylor and Francis CRC Press.)
A thought-provoking examination of destructive group
aggression and specialized forms of violence against
others. Explores the variety of groups and
institutions explicitly committed to destructive
aggression. Topics addressed include population groups
which pursue their own specialized forms of violence
against others; culture-infecting and polluting themes
which desensitize citizens and societal institutions
to deadly force and preparations for catastrophic
violence; and the role of our scientific establishment
and the media in promoting culture-wide themes that
justify, legalize, and reify violence.
Lethal Violence: A Sourcebook on Fatal
Domestic, Acquaintance, and Stranger Aggression
Edited
by Harold V. Hall, Ph.D., ABPP
This is an updated version of Lethal Violence 2000 (1996).
Click here to read sample
Chapter 13, "Police Use of Deadly Force"
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of Taylor and
Francis CRC Press.
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this book from Taylor and Francis CRC Press.)
Applies the lethal violence sequence analysis
to a wide-ranging array of fatal aggression, resulting
in a multitude of observations and principles of
violence. This sourcebook provides base rate
information and cases for each type of fatal
interaction, then applies the knowledge to
violence-related situations and settings. Even the
most experienced professional will find this book a
valuable source of information on domestic,
acquaintance, and stranger violence necessary for a
full understanding of fatal aggression. This book is
intended for mental health and law professionals as
well as investigators, attorneys, judges, and
academics.
Detecting
Malingering and Deception:
Forensic Distortion Analysis (FDA), Second Edition
Edited
by Harold V. Hall, Ph.D., ABPP, and Joseph G. Poirier,
Ph.D.
Click here to read sample
Chapter 11, "Malingered Neuropsychological
Deficits"
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of Taylor and
Francis CRC Press.
(For a discount, please use Promotion Code 731HA when
ordering
this book from Taylor and Francis CRC Press.)
This authoritative contribution offers the
reader specific steps to conduct a meaningful and
contemporary deception analysis. Moreover,
acknowledging the numerous methods and professions
involved, it suggests a framework for integrating data
from multiple sources. With new interviewing
techniques, psychological tests and instruments, Detecting
Malingering and Deception: Forensic Distortion
Analysis is the single most comprehensive and
thorough rendering of distortion analysis to date.
Disorders
of Executive Functions:
Civil and Criminal Law Applications
Edited by Harold V. Hall, Ph.D.,
ABPP, and Robert J. Sbordone, Ph.D., ABPP
(For a discount, please use Promotion Code 731HA when
ordering
this book from Taylor and Francis CRC Press.)
Disorders of Executive Functions was
written not only for professionals in psychology and
neuropsychology, but also for plaintiff and defense
attorneys and judges, rehabilitation and insurance
professionals. Specific, on-point issues are addressed
within each chapter with specific references and
suggested readings. This source book presents
realistic examples and case studies, then prepares the
reader for litigation situations. Heavily illustrated,
it provides numerous checklists, tables, and interview
formats. Sample tests and evaluations, an extensive
glossary, and an exhaustive list of core readings are
also included.
Endangered
Children:
Neonaticide, Infanticide, and Filicide
Lita
Schwarz, Ph.D., ABFP and Natalie Isser, Ph.D.
(For a discount, please use Promotion Code 731HA when
ordering
this book from Taylor and Francis CRC Press.)
With an emphasis on neonaticide in terms of motives,
alternatives, defenses offered, and penalties imposed,
this book will be of interest to everyone from social
workers to attorneys. A secondary area of focus is
infanticide and filicide, again with an analysis of
defenses, and legal outcomes. Particular attention is
paid to psychological/psychiatric defenses that have
been offered and their impact as reported in law
review articles and elsewhere. This book provides a
sociobiological, historical and criminological context
for these acts, as the authors provide psychological
explanations for the many questions that arise from
these crimes. This book is part
of the Pacific Institute Series on Forensic Psychology
Understanding
and Preventing Violence:
The Psychology of Human Destructiveness
Leighton
Whitaker, Ph.D., ABPP
(For a discount, please use Promotion Code 731HA when
ordering
this book from Taylor and Francis CRC Press.)
This book takes a hard look at an alarming
trend. It provides a focused view of the new wave of
violence - from the individual to the global levels.
It traces the influence of sexuality and the anxiety
of death on the human mentality and suggests ways to
reverse the increase in destructive human behavior.
This book will help criminologists with profiling and
spotting trends, and will aid psychologists by
deepening the understanding of their severely
character-disordered or sociopathic patients. This
book is
part
of the Pacific Institute Series on Forensic Psychology
Violence Prediction:
Guidelines for the Forensic
Practitioner, Second Edition
(2001)
 Harold V.
Hall, Ph.D., ABPP, and Ronald Ebert
Charles C. Thomas, Publisher,
Springfield, IL
The author presents a sequential,
decision-making process to assist the forensic
professional in developing reasonable, testable and
circumscribed conclusions in regard to human predatory
violence. He discusses the three primary modes of
prediction, the typology of basal violence, content
variables associated with violence, and points out why
dangerousness is nearly impossible to predict from
psychiatric diagnosis alone. The book also examines
forensic deception styles, includes techniques to
determine client misrepresentation and distortion, and
enumerates twelve dangerous prediction errors. Unique
working appendices contain actual prediction cases, a
violence factor checklist (useful in analyzing
behavior), prediction report format, questions for
participants, program evaluation format, and a needs
assessment inventory.
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