Dangerous People: Policy, Prediction, and Practice (International Perspectives on Forensic Mental Health) Review

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Dangerous People: Policy, Prediction, and Practice (International Perspectives on Forensic Mental Health) ReviewIn this important work, leading scholars from around the Western world join together to discuss the problematic science, ethics and morality underlying contemporary approaches to populations deemed high risk. These include sex offenders, suspected terrorists, illegal immigrants, violent youth, and the mentally ill.
Among the highlights:
Forensic psychologist David Cooke and statistician Christine Michie of Scotland issue their strongest warning yet about the fraud being perpetrated by proponents of "actuarial" risk prediction, whose illusion of scientific certainty camouflages predictions that are highly inaccurate and misleading.
Legal scholar Eric Janus shines a spotlight on the United States' costly experiment with civil detention of sex offenders. Janus's enticing theory is that the Sexually Violent Predator (SVP) laws are a tool of conservatives bent on rolling back feminist gains in the struggle against sexual violence and gender inequality. He advocates for a return to an empirically guided, public-health approach as the sanest way to combat sexual violence while also safeguarding tax dollars from waste.
Several chapters focus on a hybrid model out of Scotland, the "Order for Lifelong Restriction." This order involves the imposition of an indeterminate sentence to be followed by lifelong supervision.
Many of the chapters in this timely collection will no doubt prove prophetic. The current state of fear-based hysteria, like all social movements, will wane in time. Politicians and the public will realize how costly and ineffective are many of the currently cherished practices and will reverse course. As the editors conclude:
"What is clear from many of the chapters in this book is that schemes for imprisoning or detaining people for what they might do are costly, likely to contravene international human rights obligations, and have not proven to be effective in reducing crime, particularly sex offences. Detaining more and more people gives rise to the risk that detention regimes will collapse under the weight of numbers."
If you are interested in this topic, I also recommend Eric Janus's Failure to Protect, Charles Patrick Ewing's Justice Perverted and Roger Lancaster's Sex Panic and the Punitive State.
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