Grant T Harris
Biographic Data
| ID | 4126587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Grant T Harris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Grant T |
| FAMILY NAME | Harris |
| SIGNATURE | HARRIS G T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Genital Responses to Rape Vignettes Among Young Men: The Influence of Mood and Directed Attention
Violent offenders: Appraising and managing risk (3rd ed.)
Explaining the Erectile Responses of Rapists to Rape Stories: The Contributions of Sexual Activity, Non-Consent, and Violence with Injury
Is androgen deprivation therapy effective in the treatment of sex offenders
We review the effects of androgen deprivation on the sexual behavior of human males. Although eunuchs have existed in many cultures over the last 4,000 years, there is scant detailed and specific information in the historical record about castration status and sexual behavior. From the literature on modern-day eunuchs who are not sex offenders, we conclude that androgen deprivation reduces sexual desire and behavior, including sexual intercourse.…
Intimate Partner Homicide: Risk Assessment and Prospects for Prediction
Sixty-Six Years of Research on the Clinical Versus Actuarial Prediction of Violence
In their meta-analysis of clinical versus statistical prediction models, Ægisdóttir et al. (this issue) extended previous findings of statistical-method superiority across such variables as clinicians’ experience and familiarity with data. In this reaction, the authors are particularly interested in violence prediction, which yields the greatest support for actuarial models. In the past decade, actuarial prediction has continued to improve, but c…
Comparing effect sizes in follow-up studies: ROC Area, Cohen's d, and r.
In order to facilitate comparisons across follow-up studies that have used different measures of effect size, we provide a table of effect size equivalencies for the three most common measures: ROC area (AUC), Cohen's d, and r. 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 effe…
Predicting Wife Assault: A Critical Review and Implications for Policy and Practice
In this review, the authors examine the research evidence for the prediction of wife assault recidivism, lethal wife assault, and wife assault onset. They also review and present original data on the effect of treatment attendance on wife assault risk. Violence does not always become a stable habit, and variables associated with wife assault onset do not necessarily predict recidivism. General antisociality, psychopathy, substance abuse, and a hi…
The Causes Of Rape: Understanding Individual Differences In Male Propensity For Sexual Aggression (The Law and Public Policy)
Examines why some men are prone to rape, offers probable causes for this inclination, and provides a comprehensive review of scientific studies of coercive sex. The authors look at evidence from studies in developmental criminology, evolutionary psychology, psychopathology, and psychophysiology and examine the situational and social factors that influence the likelihood of rape. Theories about rape have an unfortunate history of being unconstrain…
A Brief Actuarial Assessment for the Prediction of Wife Assault Recidivism: The Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment.
An actuarial assessment to predict male-to-female marital violence was constructed from a pool of potential predictors in a sample of 589 offenders identified in police records and followed up for an average of almost 5 years. Archival information in several domains (offender characteristics, domestic violence history, nondomestic criminal history, relationship characteristics, victim characteristics, index offense) and recidivism were subjected …
The Screening Scale for Pedophilic Interests Predicts Recidivism Among Adult Sex Offenders with Child Victims
Psychopathy and developmental instability
The Construct of Psychopathy
As a psychological construct, psychopathy has undergone recent change, and there is still disagreement as to its fundamental character. Nevertheless, it can be reliably and validly measured with such behaviors as callousness, impulsivity, sensation seeking, dishonesty, emotional detachment, extreme selfishness, antisociality, belligerence, juvenile delinquency, and sexual promiscuity. Hare's Psychopathy Checklist-Revised is the best available ass…
The functions of aggression by male teenagers
A selectionist theory states that violence by males toward male peers originally served specific functions and violence to female peers served others. Differences in self-reported victimization and perpetration in studies of 1.452 high school students were hypothesized. In Study 1, male-to-male aggression was reported to be more prevalent than male-to-female aggression. For male-to-male aggression, perpetrator reports agreed with or exceeded vict…
Dissimulation in Phallometric Testing of Rapists' Sexual Preferences
Violent offenders: Appraising and managing risk
"Predicting future violence among criminal offenders is notoriously difficult. In the first edition of their popular book Violent Offenders: Appraising and Managing Risk, Vernon L. Quinsey, Grant T. Harris, Marnie E. Rice, and Catherine A. Cormier argued that community risk management can be improved by using actuarial assessment and combining what is known about the prediction of violence, the study of clinical decision making, and the literatur…
Appraisal and management of risk in sexual aggressors: Implications for criminal justice policy
Appraisal and management of risk in sexual aggressors: Implications for criminal justice policy
The authors review the literature on the psychology of sex offenders, variables associated with recidivism, actuarial methods to predict recidivism, and treatment. Sexual deviance measured phallometrically can discriminate, with high accuracy, between sex offenders and other men. Sex offenders remain at risk for a long time after release, and combinations of variables selected for their cumulative efficiency in predicting recidivism have been dev…
The treatment of mentally disordered offenders
The treatment of mentally disordered offenders
However narrowly defined, mentally disordered offenders (MDOs) are heterogeneous in demographics, diagnoses, offense characteristics, risk, and clinical needs. Treatment planning for MDOs should begin with an assessment of risk of future violent behavior in the community and risk of violence toward self or others inside an institution. Purposes of treatment among MDOs include treatments both to reduce risk of future violence and to alleviate the …
Violent recidivism: Assessing predictive validity
Evaluation of an Institution-based Treatment Program for Child Molesters
Although treatment programs for child molesters have become common, few have been subjected to rigorous evaluation. In this article we discuss issues in the evaluation of treatment programs for child molesters and then describe an evaluation of a behavioral program for child molesters treated in a maximum security psychiatric institution. The results provided no evidence of program efficacy, although support was found for the predictive validity …
Explaining the Erectile Responses of Rapists to Rape Stories: The Contributions of Sexual Activity, Non-Consent, and Violence with Injury
The functions of aggression by male teenagers
A selectionist theory states that violence by males toward male peers originally served specific functions and violence to female peers served others. Differences in self-reported victimization and perpetration in studies of 1.452 high school students were hypothesized. In Study 1, male-to-male aggression was reported to be more prevalent than male-to-female aggression. For male-to-male aggression, perpetrator reports agreed with or exceeded vict…
The Screening Scale for Pedophilic Interests Predicts Recidivism Among Adult Sex Offenders with Child Victims
Dissimulation in Phallometric Testing of Rapists' Sexual Preferences
Intimate Partner Homicide: Risk Assessment and Prospects for Prediction
Appraisal and management of risk in sexual aggressors: Implications for criminal justice policy
The authors review the literature on the psychology of sex offenders, variables associated with recidivism, actuarial methods to predict recidivism, and treatment. Sexual deviance measured phallometrically can discriminate, with high accuracy, between sex offenders and other men. Sex offenders remain at risk for a long time after release, and combinations of variables selected for their cumulative efficiency in predicting recidivism have been dev…
Sixty-Six Years of Research on the Clinical Versus Actuarial Prediction of Violence
In their meta-analysis of clinical versus statistical prediction models, Ægisdóttir et al. (this issue) extended previous findings of statistical-method superiority across such variables as clinicians’ experience and familiarity with data. In this reaction, the authors are particularly interested in violence prediction, which yields the greatest support for actuarial models. In the past decade, actuarial prediction has continued to improve, but c…
The Construct of Psychopathy
As a psychological construct, psychopathy has undergone recent change, and there is still disagreement as to its fundamental character. Nevertheless, it can be reliably and validly measured with such behaviors as callousness, impulsivity, sensation seeking, dishonesty, emotional detachment, extreme selfishness, antisociality, belligerence, juvenile delinquency, and sexual promiscuity. Hare's Psychopathy Checklist-Revised is the best available ass…
Genital Responses to Rape Vignettes Among Young Men: The Influence of Mood and Directed Attention
The treatment of mentally disordered offenders
However narrowly defined, mentally disordered offenders (MDOs) are heterogeneous in demographics, diagnoses, offense characteristics, risk, and clinical needs. Treatment planning for MDOs should begin with an assessment of risk of future violent behavior in the community and risk of violence toward self or others inside an institution. Purposes of treatment among MDOs include treatments both to reduce risk of future violence and to alleviate the …
Evaluation of an Institution-based Treatment Program for Child Molesters
Although treatment programs for child molesters have become common, few have been subjected to rigorous evaluation. In this article we discuss issues in the evaluation of treatment programs for child molesters and then describe an evaluation of a behavioral program for child molesters treated in a maximum security psychiatric institution. The results provided no evidence of program efficacy, although support was found for the predictive validity …
Violent recidivism: Assessing predictive validity
The treatment of mentally disordered offenders
The treatment of mentally disordered offenders
However narrowly defined, mentally disordered offenders (MDOs) are heterogeneous in demographics, diagnoses, offense characteristics, risk, and clinical needs. Treatment planning for MDOs should begin with an assessment of risk of future violent behavior in the community and risk of violence toward self or others inside an institution. Purposes of treatment among MDOs include treatments both to reduce risk of future violence and to alleviate the …
Violent offenders: Appraising and managing risk
"Predicting future violence among criminal offenders is notoriously difficult. In the first edition of their popular book Violent Offenders: Appraising and Managing Risk, Vernon L. Quinsey, Grant T. Harris, Marnie E. Rice, and Catherine A. Cormier argued that community risk management can be improved by using actuarial assessment and combining what is known about the prediction of violence, the study of clinical decision making, and the literatur…
Appraisal and management of risk in sexual aggressors: Implications for criminal justice policy
Appraisal and management of risk in sexual aggressors: Implications for criminal justice policy
The authors review the literature on the psychology of sex offenders, variables associated with recidivism, actuarial methods to predict recidivism, and treatment. Sexual deviance measured phallometrically can discriminate, with high accuracy, between sex offenders and other men. Sex offenders remain at risk for a long time after release, and combinations of variables selected for their cumulative efficiency in predicting recidivism have been dev…
Dissimulation in Phallometric Testing of Rapists' Sexual Preferences
The functions of aggression by male teenagers
A selectionist theory states that violence by males toward male peers originally served specific functions and violence to female peers served others. Differences in self-reported victimization and perpetration in studies of 1.452 high school students were hypothesized. In Study 1, male-to-male aggression was reported to be more prevalent than male-to-female aggression. For male-to-male aggression, perpetrator reports agreed with or exceeded vict…
Psychopathy and developmental instability
The Construct of Psychopathy
As a psychological construct, psychopathy has undergone recent change, and there is still disagreement as to its fundamental character. Nevertheless, it can be reliably and validly measured with such behaviors as callousness, impulsivity, sensation seeking, dishonesty, emotional detachment, extreme selfishness, antisociality, belligerence, juvenile delinquency, and sexual promiscuity. Hare's Psychopathy Checklist-Revised is the best available ass…
A Brief Actuarial Assessment for the Prediction of Wife Assault Recidivism: The Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment.
An actuarial assessment to predict male-to-female marital violence was constructed from a pool of potential predictors in a sample of 589 offenders identified in police records and followed up for an average of almost 5 years. Archival information in several domains (offender characteristics, domestic violence history, nondomestic criminal history, relationship characteristics, victim characteristics, index offense) and recidivism were subjected …
The Screening Scale for Pedophilic Interests Predicts Recidivism Among Adult Sex Offenders with Child Victims
Comparing effect sizes in follow-up studies: ROC Area, Cohen's d, and r.
In order to facilitate comparisons across follow-up studies that have used different measures of effect size, we provide a table of effect size equivalencies for the three most common measures: ROC area (AUC), Cohen's d, and r. 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 effe…
Predicting Wife Assault: A Critical Review and Implications for Policy and Practice
In this review, the authors examine the research evidence for the prediction of wife assault recidivism, lethal wife assault, and wife assault onset. They also review and present original data on the effect of treatment attendance on wife assault risk. Violence does not always become a stable habit, and variables associated with wife assault onset do not necessarily predict recidivism. General antisociality, psychopathy, substance abuse, and a hi…
The Causes Of Rape: Understanding Individual Differences In Male Propensity For Sexual Aggression (The Law and Public Policy)
Examines why some men are prone to rape, offers probable causes for this inclination, and provides a comprehensive review of scientific studies of coercive sex. The authors look at evidence from studies in developmental criminology, evolutionary psychology, psychopathology, and psychophysiology and examine the situational and social factors that influence the likelihood of rape. Theories about rape have an unfortunate history of being unconstrain…
Sixty-Six Years of Research on the Clinical Versus Actuarial Prediction of Violence
In their meta-analysis of clinical versus statistical prediction models, Ægisdóttir et al. (this issue) extended previous findings of statistical-method superiority across such variables as clinicians’ experience and familiarity with data. In this reaction, the authors are particularly interested in violence prediction, which yields the greatest support for actuarial models. In the past decade, actuarial prediction has continued to improve, but c…
Is androgen deprivation therapy effective in the treatment of sex offenders
We review the effects of androgen deprivation on the sexual behavior of human males. Although eunuchs have existed in many cultures over the last 4,000 years, there is scant detailed and specific information in the historical record about castration status and sexual behavior. From the literature on modern-day eunuchs who are not sex offenders, we conclude that androgen deprivation reduces sexual desire and behavior, including sexual intercourse.…
Intimate Partner Homicide: Risk Assessment and Prospects for Prediction
Explaining the Erectile Responses of Rapists to Rape Stories: The Contributions of Sexual Activity, Non-Consent, and Violence with Injury
Violent offenders: Appraising and managing risk (3rd ed.)
Genital Responses to Rape Vignettes Among Young Men: The Influence of Mood and Directed Attention
Psychology (22 works) · Clinical Psychology (12 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (10 works) · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Injury prevention (7 works) · Medical emergency (7 works)