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Blind-Sided: Homicide Where It Is Least Expected

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In BLIND-SIDED, Dr. Moffatt offers highly readable and understandable information on assessment of risk for homicide. Dr. Moffatt's work utilizes a hierarchy of risk variables for violent behavior. This twenty-two item list includes factors such as a history of violent or aggressive behavior, subjective fear of the individual by others, and fantasies of violence. His explanation and discussion of these factors is clear and informative. Dr. Moffatt realized that people could be trained to recognize basic warning signs and that they did not need formal training in psychology to provide intervention that could save lives. His work focuses on homicide among people with no apparent violent patterns in their pasts. His work, however, revealed that many of the killers he studied had a history of violence in their pasts but for one reason or another this had not been reported. BLIND-SIDED includes discussion of seven mistakes, from ignoring or failing to respond adequately to threats, to failure to call for help soon enough, that can cost people their lives. We know that this type of tragedy could happen to us. Reading BLIND-SIDED will give us a better understanding of homicide and of how assessing risk for homicide hopefully can help to save our lives and the lives of those we love.