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Coercive and precocious sexuality as a fundamental aspect of psychopathyGrant T Harris
Research Department, Mental Health Centre Penetanguishene, Penetanguishene, ON, Canada
J Pers Disord 21:1-27. 2007..The present findings are consistent with prior empirical findings and support the hypothesis that psychopathy has been a nonpathological, reproductively viable, alternate life history strategy...- The criminogenic, clinical, and social problems of forensic and civil psychiatric patientsMichael C Seto
Law and Mental Health Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M6J 1H4
Law Hum Behav 28:577-86. 2004..This finding also supports the idea that many forensic patients can be appropriately diverted to nonforensic mental health services... - Violent sex offenses: how are they best measured from official records?Marnie E Rice
Research Department, Mental Health Centre, 500 Church Street, Penetanguishene, Ontario, Canada, L9M 1G3
Law Hum Behav 30:525-41. 2006.... - Response inhibition in psychopathy: the frontal N2 and P3Gillian E S Munro
Psychology Department, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Neurosci Lett 418:149-53. 2007.... - An indepth actuarial assessment for wife assault recidivism: the Domestic Violence Risk Appraisal GuideN Zoe Hilton
Research Department, Mental Health Centre, 500 Church Street, Penetanguishene, ON, Canada L9M 1G3
Law Hum Behav 32:150-63. 2008..An algorithm was derived for a combined instrument, the Domestic Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (DVRAG), and an experience table is presented (N=649). Results indicated the importance of antisociality in wife assault... - Effects of a tobacco ban on long-term psychiatric patientsGrant T Harris
Research Department, Penetanguishene Mental Health Centre, 500 Church St, Penetanguishene, ON L9M 1G3, Canada
J Behav Health Serv Res 34:43-55. 2007..It was concluded that successful implementation, and the avoidance of ill effects, depended entirely on the success staff members had in actually preventing patient access to tobacco... - Prospective replication of the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide in predicting violent recidivism among forensic patientsGrant T Harris
Research Department, Mental Health Centre, Penetanguishene, Ontario, Canada
Law Hum Behav 26:377-94. 2002..The authors conclude that, regardless of length of opportunity or severity of outcome, actuarial methods are more accurate than is clinical judgment... - Actuarial assessment of risk among sex offendersGrant T Harris
Research Department, Mental Health Centre Penetanguishene, Penetanguishene, Ontario L9M 1G3, Canada
Ann N Y Acad Sci 989:198-210; discussion 236-46. 2003.... - Applying a forensic actuarial assessment (the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide) to nonforensic patientsGrant T Harris
Mental Health Centre Penetanguishene, Ontario, Canada
J Interpers Violence 19:1063-74. 2004..Accuracy of VRAG predictions was unrelated to sex. The results provide evidence about the robustness of comprehensive actuarial risk assessments and the generality of the personal factors that underlie violent behavior... - A multisite comparison of actuarial risk instruments for sex offendersGrant T Harris
Research Department, Penetanguishene Mental Health Centre, 500 Church Street, Penetanguishene, Ontario L9M 1G3, Canada
Psychol Assess 15:413-25. 2003..Consistent with past research, survival analyses revealed that those offenders high in both psychopathy and sexual deviance were an especially high-risk group... - Men in his category have a 50% likelihood, but which half is he in? Comments on Berlin, Galbreath, Geary, and McGloneGrant Harris
Department of Psychology, Queen's University at Kingston, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Sex Abuse 15:389-92. 2003 - Identifying persistently antisocial offenders using the Hare Psychopathy Checklist and DSM antisocial personality disorder criteriaTracey A Skilling
Department of Psychology, Queen s University, Penetanguishene Mental Health Centre, Penetanguishene, Ontario, Canada
Psychol Assess 14:27-38. 2002..Results indicated that life-course-persistent antisociality can be assessed well by measures of psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder... - Effects of a Snoezelen room on the behavior of three autistic clientsShari A McKee
Research Department, Mental Health Centre Penetanguishene, 500 Church Street, Penetanguishene, Ont, Canada L9M 1G3
Res Dev Disabil 28:304-16. 2007..These findings do not support the contention that Snoezelen rooms are effective interventions for aggressive behavior in this client population... - ERN varies with degree of psychopathy in an emotion discrimination taskGillian E S Munro
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Biol Psychol 76:31-42. 2007..Source modelling of the ERN also indicated an atypical response for psychopaths when error monitoring required the discrimination of affectively based information... - Improving forensic tribunal decisions: the role of the clinicianShari A McKee
Research Department, Mental Health Centre, 500 Church Street, Penetanguishene, ON, Canada
Behav Sci Law 25:485-506. 2007..An automated system is presented as an illustration of how the consistency and validity of forensic decisions could be enhanced... - Does using nonnumerical terms to describe risk aid violence risk communication? Clinician agreement and decision makingN Zoe Hilton
Mental Health Centre Penetanguishene, Ontario, Canada
J Interpers Violence 23:171-88. 2008..These findings suggest that nonnumerical descriptive terms do not aid effective communication of violence risk and that contextual information might artificially affect estimated risk... - Comparing effect sizes in follow-up studies: ROC Area, Cohen's d, and rMarnie E Rice
Mental Health Centre, Penetanguishene, Ontario, Canada
Law Hum Behav 29:615-20. 2005..We outline why AUC is the preferred measure of predictive or diagnostic accuracy in forensic psychology or psychiatry, and we urge researchers and practitioners to use numbers rather than verbal labels to characterize effect sizes... - Predicting wife assault: a critical review and implications for policy and practiceN Zoe Hilton
Mental Health Centre, Penetanguishene, Ontario, Canada
Trauma Violence Abuse 6:3-23. 2005..Because of statistical and practical limitations to predicting lethal assault, they recommend using an actuarial assessment of wife assault risk, plus attention to the strongest correlates of lethal assault when lethality is a concern... - A brief actuarial assessment for the prediction of wife assault recidivism: the Ontario domestic assault risk assessmentN Zoe Hilton
Research Department, Penetanguishene Mental Health Centre, Penetanguishene, ON, Canada
Psychol Assess 16:267-75. 2004..1, relative operating characteristic area =.77) and was associated with number and severity of new assaults and time until recidivism. Cross-validation and comparisons with other instruments are also reported... - The screening scale for pedophilic interests predicts recidivism among adult sex offenders with child victimsMichael C Seto
Law and Mental Health Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Arch Sex Behav 33:455-66. 2004..These findings suggest that the SSPI has predictive utility among adult male sex offenders with child victims, and accounts for variance in sexual offending that is not explained by phallometric testing... - Adolescents' perceptions of the seriousness of sexual aggression: influence of gender, traditional attitudes, and self-reported experienceN Zoe Hilton
Research Department, Mental Health Centre, 500 Church Street, Penetanguishene, Ontario, Canada, L9M 1G3
Sex Abuse 15:201-14. 2003..The role of attitudes as a direct cause of interpersonal aggression is discussed along with implications for intervention... - Men who molest their sexually immature daughters: is a special explanation required?Marnie E Rice
Research Department, Mental Health Centre Penetanguishene, Ontario, Canada
J Abnorm Psychol 111:329-39. 2002..L. Quinsey, G. T. Harris, M. E. Rice, and C. A. Cormier, 1998) worked as well for intrafamilial child molesters as for other sex offenders... - Research ethics and forensic psychiatry: a comment on Regehr and othersVernon L Quinsey
Can J Psychiatry 47:384-5; author reply 385-6. 2002 - Are rapists differentially aroused by coercive sex in phallometric assessments?Martin L Lalumière
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M6J 1H4
Ann N Y Acad Sci 989:211-24; discussion 236-46. 2003..We then present new data on the discriminative and diagnostic validity of a phallometric test for rapists. Finally, we discuss methodological and conceptual issues in phallometric assessment and the nature of rapists' sexual interests... - The size and sign of treatment effects in sex offender therapyMarnie E Rice
Research Department, Mental Health Centre Penetanguishene, Penetanguishene, Ontario L9M 1G3, Canada
Ann N Y Acad Sci 989:428-40; discussion 441-5. 2003..We conclude that the effectiveness of psychological treatment for sex offenders remains to be demonstrated. Furthermore, we outline solutions that we think will lead to progress in the field of sex offender treatment... - Shall evidence-based risk assessment be abandoned?Grant T Harris
Br J Psychiatry 192:154; author reply 154. 2008