Safeguarding the Quality of Forensic Assessment in Sentencing

This edited collection provides an interdisciplinary and cross-national perspective on safeguarding forensic risk assessment in sentencing violent offenders.

Autorentext

Michiel van der Wolf is a professor of Forensic Psychiatry at Leiden University and associate professor in Criminal Law at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

Inhalt

1. Introduction

Michiel van der Wolf

2. Contemplations and discussions on the quality of forensic assessment in sentencing: Puzzling pieces for decision-makers

Michiel van der Wolf & Michiel de Vries-Robbé

3. An English perspective

Adrian Grounds & Nicola Padfield

4. An American perspective

Christopher King, Lauren Grove, Brooke Stettler & Sharon Kelley

5. A Canadian perspective

Michelle S. Lawrence & David W. Morgan

6. An Australian perspective

Jamie Walvisch & Andrew Carroll

7. A German perspective

Johannes Kaspar & Susanne Stübner

8. A Swedish perspective

Tova Bennet, Malin Hildebrand Karlén & Lena Wahlberg

9. A Dutch perspective

Michiel van der Wolf, Hjalmar van Marle & Sabine Roza

10. Comparative analysis

Michiel van der Wolf