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Violence Assessment and Intervention: The Practitioner's Handbook

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I am new to the field of violence assessment and this book is an excellent tool. I now use it as the guide line for my cases. I have learned so much from it as well as earning the confidence of my employers with the tools it helped me to develope. I encourage eveyone who is associated with the field of threat assessment to purchase this book. I think that even very experienced professionals will learn something important from reading this handbook.

An excellent and comprehensive guidebook for professionals involved in the area of threat assessment and incident management. This is a sorely needed text that covers the critical issues that the practitioner in this relatively newly developing field faces everyday. Corcoran and Cawood share the knowledge gained from their years of experience in a readable and well organized format. I highly recommend this book for either novices interested in this area of study, or for experienced practitioners to use as a primary reference.

If you were able to read only one book on workplace violence, this is the one. In fact, even if you are a practitioner who has read several, this should still be on the must read list. This is the most substantive and insightful book on the assessment and management of targeted violence that I have seen - bar none. It takes a rigorous look at the assessment process and then provides helpful information related to vulnerability management, law and ethics. Included is a very workable assessment tool that can (with the recommended training) be effectively applied in the workplace.

The second edition also includes new information, including coverage of ATAP's model threat assessment (RAGE-V) guideline. This a framework that anyone responsible for threat assessment, to include all members of an incident management team, should be familiar with.