The Pacific Institute has published over 100 articles/reviews/chapters and 14 books, all of which have been peer-reviewed by at least 3 board certified psychologists, neuropsychologists, or psychiatrists. All have been published by the Pacific Institute or major publishing houses. Highly popular books include 5 second editions entitled: Violence Prediction, Detecting Malingering and Deception, Methamphetamine Use, Lethal Violence, and Child Homicide.
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Forensic Psychology and Neuropsychology for Criminal and Civil Cases
Harold V. Hall (Editor, 2008)
Forensic Psychology and Neuropsychology for Criminal and Civil Cases
Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
This sourcebook applies the lethal violence sequence analysis to a wide-ranging array of fatal aggression, resulting in a multitude of observations and principles of violence. This analysis provides base rate information along with case examples for each type of fatal interaction, and applies the knowledge to violence-related situations and settings. Twenty three independent studies discuss current theories in 5 categories: foundational issues, juvenile and family violence, criminal violence, evaluation and intervention, and institutional violence. Topics covered within the 5 categories include individual chapters concerning: an overview of lethal violence; brain dysfunction and neural bases for and treatment of violent behavior; sex differences in juvenile violence; social inducements to paralethal and lethal violence such as violence in the media and/or the programming for violence addictions; victim-precipitated homicide with regard to victims who set into motion the events that result in their own demise; infanticide; spousal homicide; violence in the family; murder-suicide; workplace violence; violence and the sexual paraphilias or the deviant sexual act; serial murder; murder and sex murders motivated by underlying sexual conflicts; aircraft hijacking in the United States influenced by political, personal, and criminal motivations; insanity and mitigation to murder by reason of insanity; psychometric testing for personality disorders which cause lethal violence; psychological assessments of those who perpetrate lethal violence; treatment for sibling survivors of lethal violence; cognitive retraining of cerebral deficits associated with brain dysfunction that causes violent behavior; an examination of hostage takers, victims, and negotiators in hostage situations; the conflict to competition to violence cycle of violence in Western civilization; the violent community; police use of deadly force; and death by institutional or societal violence. Tables, figures, and references
Collective Violence
Collective Violence: Effective Strategies for Assessing and Intervening in
Fatal Group and Institutional Aggression
Harold V. Hall & Leighton C. Whitaker (Editors, 1999)
Collective Violence: Effective Strategies for Assessing and Intervening in
Fatal Group and Institutional Aggression
Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press., Inc.
This book explores the variety of groups and institutions explicitly committed to destructive aggression. Topics addressed include population groups which pursue their own specialized forms of violence against others; culture-infecting and polluting themes which desensitize citizens and societal institutions to deadly force and preparations for catastrophic violence; and the role of our scientific establishment and the media in promoting culture-wide themes that justify, legalize, and reify violence.
Workplace Violence Risk Analysis
Effective Prediction and Intervention Strategies
Harold V. Hall & David A. Pritchard (2002)
Workplace Violence: Effective Prediction and Intervention Strategies
Kamuela, HI: Pacific Institute for The Study of Conflict and Aggression
Workplace violence has increased in recent years beyond all expectations. The trend is even more alarming considering that more violence has been perpetrated in the 20th century than in the two previous centuries combined. Workplace Violence Risk Analysis: Effective Prediction and Intervention Strategies provides a focused view of this new type of violence - from the disgruntled employee to the perpetrator of domestic violence whose rage spills over into the workplace.Aimed at administrative supervisors, human resources staff, vocational counselors, and mental health and forensic personnel, Drs. Hall and Pritchard deliver a book with the highly useful Workplace Violence Risk Assessment Checklist (WVRAC). AWVRAC computer program is available as a companion to the text. Features * Includes latest databases on a variety of empirically validated risk assessment methods. * Provides a checklist of factors associated with workplace violence reported in the clinical-empirical-organizational literature * Gives most recent information on workplace violence * Contains a chapter on intervention based on findings from WVRAC * Interactive software is included to help in assessment and aid in finding solutions.
Harold V. Hall (Editor, 2008) Forensic Psychology and Neuropsychology for Criminal and Civil Cases Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
Lita Linzer Schwartz & Natalie Isser (2007) Child Homicide: Parents Who Kill (Pacific Institute Series on Forensic Psychology) Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Inc.
Harold V. Hall (Editor, 2003) Terrorism: Strategies For Intervention Haworth Press, Inc., New York, and Journal of Threat Assessment, Vol. 2, No. 3
Sandra B. McPherson, Harold V. Hall & Errol Yudko (2003) 2nd Edition Methamphetamine Use: Clinical and Forensic Aspects Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Inc.
Harold V. Hall & Ronald S. Ebert (2002) 2nd Edition Violence Prediction: Guidelines for the Forensic Practitioner Springfield, IL, Charles C. Thomas Publisher, Ltd.
Harold V. Hall & David A. Pritchard (2002) Workplace Violence: Effective Prediction and Intervention Strategies Kamuela, HI: Pacific Institute for The Study of Conflict and Aggression
Harold V. Hall, H. & Joseph G. Poirier (2001) 2nd Edition Detecting Malingering and Deception:Forensic Distortion Analysis Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Inc.
Lita Linzer Schwartz & Natalie Isser (2000) Endangered Children: Neonaticide, Infantcide, and Filicide (Pacific Institute Series on Forensic Psychology) CRC Press, Inc.
Harold V. Hall & Leighton C. Whitaker (Editors, 1999) Collective Violence: Effective Strategies for Assessing and Intervening in Fatal Group and Institutional Aggression Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Inc.
Harold V. Hall (Editor, 1999) Lethal Violence: A Sourcebook on Fatal Domestic, Acquaintance and Stranger Aggression Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Inc.
Robert M. Anderson, Terri L. Needels, Harold V. Hall (1998) Avoiding Ethical Misconduct in Psychology Specialty Areas Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, Ltd.
Harold V. Hall (Editor, 1996) Lethal Violence 2000: A Sourcebook on Fatal Domestic, Acquaintance and Stranger Aggression. Kamuela, HI: Pacific Institute for the Study of Conflict and Aggression
Harold V. Hall, & David A. Pritchard (1996) Detecting Malingering and Deception: Forensic Distortion Analysis (FDA). Boca Raton, FL: St. Lucie Press Corp.
Harold V. Hall & Robert J. Sbordone (Editors, 1993) Disorders of Executive Functioning: Civil and Criminal Law Applications Winter Park, FL: PMD Publishers Group, Inc.
Harold V. Hall (1987) Violence Prediction: Guidelines for the Forensic Practitioner Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publishers, Ltd.
Leighton C. Whitaker (2000) Understanding and Preventing Violence: The Psychology of Human Destructiveness Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, LLC.
Violence Prediction
Guidelines for the Forensic Practitioner
2nd Edition
Harold V. Hall & Ronald S. Ebert (2002)
Violence Prediction: Guidelines for the Forensic Practitioner
Springfield, IL, Charles C. Thomas Publisher, Ltd.
Which individuals are apt to commit a single violent act? Who among them will commit more such acts? What degree of certainty can judges, parole boards, mental health institutions, and the general public holding terms of violence predictions by psychologists and psychiatrists? What level of confidence, beyond the level of pure chance, can evaluators have in their own predictions of dangerousness? Harold V. Hall and Ronald S. Ebert explore the historical foundations of these inquiries and discuss multiple generations of forensic-decision analysis, adding more than a decade of contemporary research to the first edition of this book. They present the most common deliberate and nondeliberate distortions that can influence violence prediction analysis, and they discuss both literature and demonstration studies that are the foundation of prediction accuracy. Additionally, they explore extant systems, the dangerousness prediction decision tree and major pitfalls of its use, as well as ethical considerations in forensics and the assessments of dangerousness. Throughout this volume, the authors include a wide range of pertinent figures, tables, appendix materials, and references for thoughtful analysts to use as they seek to understand the complex issues of predicting dangerousness and potential levels of human predatory violence.
Detecting Malingering and Deception
Forensic Distortion Analysis
2nd Edition
Hall, H. & Joseph G. Poirier (2001)
Detecting Malingering and Deception: Forensic Distortion Analysis
Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Inc.
Although advances in clinical/forensic theory and technology continue to elucidate our understanding of deception analysis, the current state of the art is crude in most applications. With new interviewing techniques, psychological tests and instruments, "Detecting Malingering and Deception: Forensic Distortion Analysis, Second Edition" takes the reader far beyond the basic differentiation between malingering versus defensiveness as the two modes of distortion.What's new in this edition? Virtually every chapter has been updated with new studies and investigations from the past decade. The latest information is provided in such areas as post-traumatic stress disorder, amnesia, competency, criminal responsibility, and risk assessment. Several new chapters address not only the development of deceptive behavior in children, adolescents, and the elderly, but even in nonhumans. This authoritative contribution offers the reader specific steps to conduct a meaningful and contemporary deception analysis. Moreover, acknowledging the numerous methods and professions involved, it suggests a framework for integrating data from multiple sources. Nominated for the Guttmacher Award by the American Psychiatric Association, "Detecting Malingering and Deception: Forensic Distortion Analysis" is the single most comprehensive and thorough rendering of distortion analysis to date.
Lethal Violence 2000
A Sourcebook on Fatal Domestic, Acquaintance and Stranger Aggression
Harold V. Hall, (Editor, 1996)
Lethal Violence 2000: A Sourcebook on Fatal Domestic, Acquaintance and Stranger Aggression
Kamuela, HI: Pacific Institute for the Study of Conflict and Aggression
This sourcebook applies the lethal violence sequence analysis to a wide-ranging array of fatal aggression, resulting in a multitude of observations and principles of violence. This analysis provides base rate information along with case examples for each type of fatal interaction, and applies the knowledge to violence-related situations and settings. Twenty three independent studies discuss current theories in 5 categories: foundational issues, juvenile and family violence, criminal violence, evaluation and intervention, and institutional violence. Topics covered within the 5 categories include individual chapters concerning: an overview of lethal violence; brain dysfunction and neural bases for and treatment of violent behavior; sex differences in juvenile violence; social inducements to paralethal and lethal violence such as violence in the media and/or the programming for violence addictions; victim-precipitated homicide with regard to victims who set into motion the events that result in their own demise; infanticide; spousal homicide; violence in the family; murder-suicide; workplace violence; violence and the sexual paraphilias or the deviant sexual act; serial murder; murder and sex murders motivated by underlying sexual conflicts; aircraft hijacking in the United States influenced by political, personal, and criminal motivations; insanity and mitigation to murder by reason of insanity; psychometric testing for personality disorders which cause lethal violence; psychological assessments of those who perpetrate lethal violence; treatment for sibling survivors of lethal violence; cognitive retraining of cerebral deficits associated with brain dysfunction that causes violent behavior; an examination of hostage takers, victims, and negotiators in hostage situations; the conflict to competition to violence cycle of violence in Western civilization; the violent community; police use of deadly force; and death by institutional or societal violence.
Methamphetamine Use
Clinical and Forensic Aspects
2nd Edition
Sandra B. McPherson, Harold V. Hall & Errol Yudko (2003)
Methamphetamine Use: Clinical and Forensic Aspects
Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Inc.
The first wave of methamphetamine use began in the late 1980s and its prevalence has continued to rise across the United States and throughout the world. As with any harmful substance, its abuse has far-reaching ramifications that go beyond the destruction it causes to the human body. Written by a multidisciplinary team of experts, "Methamphetamine Use: Clinical and Forensic Aspects, Second Edition" examines meth use and abuse from clinical, forensic, and criminal justice perspectives. Updated and expanded to reflect changes in recent years, this volume covers virtually every aspect of this dangerous drug. The book begins with a history of drug control in America, then provides global perspectives on methamphetamine use. It explores biochemical aspects and includes a chapter on the methamphetamine analogue 'ecstasy'.The text examines the effects of meth use on human behavior, with a special focus on empirical evidence of amphetamine use as a contributing factor in aggression. The authors discuss forensic issues related to methamphetamine use in chapters covering expert testimony, criminal responsibility, mitigation in sentencing, and competency to stand trial. The last section examines various treatment modalities. As methamphetamine grows once again in popularity, it is crucial that those who deal with the effects of it be well-informed about the dangers it poses. This volume provides a comprehensive, critical survey of the current knowledge regarding the use and abuse of this dangerous and ubiquitous substance.
Endangered Children
Neonaticide, Infantcide, and Filicide
Lita Linzer Schwartz & Natalie Isser (2000)
Endangered Children: Neonaticide, Infantcide, and Filicide
(Pacific Institute Series on Forensic Psychology)
Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Inc.
People are horrified when parents kill their children, yet this act occurs daily on a global basis. Endangered Children: Neonaticide, Infanticide and Filicide provides a psychological, sociological, and criminological perspective of these acts, as the authors answer the many questions that arise from these crimes. With an emphasis on neonaticide in terms of motives, alternatives, defenses offered, and penalties imposed, this book will be of interest to everyone from social workers to attorneys. A secondary area of focus is infanticide and filicide, again with attention paid to motives, defenses, and legal outcomes. Particular attention is paid to psychological/psychiatric defenses that have been offered and their impact as reported in law review articles and elsewhere. Despite universal reprobation, neonaticide and infanticide have been practiced on every continent and by people on every level of intellectual complexity. This text will examine the mothers of the victims in terms of background and motives along with the role, if any, that mental illness plays in the death of their children. What sets the stage for a parent of a newborn to abandon it to an almost certain death? What motives underlie such an act? Do the attitudes and laws regarding abortion have any relation to neonaticide? These questions, as well as many others will be answered in societal, religious and legal terms. Professionals and the lay public alike need to understand why these incidents occur and what actions can be undertaken to reduce them in the future.
Lethal Violence
A Sourcebook on Fatal Domestic, Acquaintance and Stranger Aggression
Harold V. Hall (Editor, 1999)
Lethal Violence: A Sourcebook on Fatal Domestic, Acquaintance and Stranger Aggression
Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Inc.
Lethal Violence: A Sourcebook on Fatal Domestic, Acquaintance and Stranger Aggression applies the lethal violence sequence analysis to a wide-ranging array of fatal aggression, resulting in a multitude of observations and principles of violence. This sourcebook provides base rate information and cases for each type of fatal interaction, then applies the knowledge to violence-related situations and settings.
(REVIEWS) ...a unique blend of outstanding experts from the forensic disciplines. Incorporating cutting edge topics confronted by the law enforcement community, these experts, with their varied backgrounds, have delved into the darkest sides of the human personality.
-Lloyd E. Dean, FBI Special Agent (Retired) and Co-Founder, Threat Management Group, Inc., Louisville, Kentucky
....a valuable asset to any professional's library, and of significant importance to both clinicians and also individuals involved in research regarding violent behavior....an encompassing review of the area of both factual and theoretical knowledge concerning lethal violence in our society....well presented and also researched in a scholarly manner....Both neuropsychologists and also clinical psychologists in general will find much value in Dr. Hall's volume that assist improving their knowledge regarding abnormal behavior.
-Robert C. Chamberlain, Clinical Neuropsychologist
Terrorism
Strategies for Intervention
Harold V. Hall (Editor, 2003)
Terrorism: Strategies for Intervention
New York: Haworth Press, Inc., and Journal of Threat Assessment, Vol. 2, No. 3.
An essential resource for anyone working against terrorism in any form it may take! Written for threat assessment professionals in the post-9/11 era, this timely book will help you understand the motivation to commit acts of terror, the thinking patterns common to many terrorists, the psychology of Muslim fundamentalists, methods for predicting the likelihood of chemical/biological attacks, and a great deal more. You'll learn about hostage/barricade situations and the role of the crisis negotiator, including victim/perpetrator psychology and factors that indicate progress is being made in a crisis negotiation and factors that imply imminent lethality. After reading Terrorism: Strategies for Intervention, you'll have a better understanding of: biological, social, and psychological constructs that are important to understanding group violence the role of emotions in violence the history of chemical/biological weapons use from 1978 to the present, and methods of predicting the likelihood and origins of such attacks the importance of concurrent sequences in relation to chemical/biological attacks hostage/barricade situations, the makeup of crisis negotiation teams, and the role of the crisis negotiator hostage incident databases--where to find them, what they contain, and how they can be used effectively six different types of hostage takers and what strategies have the best chance of bringing each type's crises to an end factors that indicate progress is being made in a crisis negotiation and factors that imply imminent lethality ethical concerns for forensic consultants when dealing with the issues surrounding terrorism Here is a sample of what you'll find in this informative and well-referenced book:
PUBLICATIONS OF THE PACIFIC INSTITUTE
Detecting Malingering and Deception
Forensic Distortion Analysis (FDA)
Harold V. Hall & David A. Pritchard (1996)
Detecting Malingering and Deception: Forensic Distortion Analysis (FDA).
Boca Raton, FL: St. Lucie Press Corp.
This book is the culmination of more than 20 years of study, research, and the direct evaluation of thousands of forensic clients. The authors provide the reader with the highest caliber of professionalism and make clear that the current state of the art in deception analysis is crude to say the least. They challenge readers to closely examine their own decision processes in regard to deception. And they admit that they have no sympathy for the common complaint that proper deception analysis requires much time and effort, which can be a burden to the busy professional. They make clear that the days of administering an MMPI and a Rorschach to a client and thereby knowing everything there is to know about that person are gone forever.
Avoiding Ethical Misconduct in Psychology Specialty Areas
Robert M. Anderson, Terri L. Needels & Harold V. Hall (1998)
Avoiding Ethical Misconduct in Psychology Specialty Areas
Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, Ltd..
With clinical psychology rapidly expanding and diversifying, new fields of expertise are emerging and new populations of clients are receiving services. This expansion has created new and important ethical issues specific to these additional areas of practice. Herein, the authors investigate these new issues, as well as some older ones, specific to the various specialty areas in clinical psychology. They present an interesting sampling of issues likely to surface in the various specialty fields. These issues are expertly illustrated by vignettes which are interpreted within the framework of the APA code of ethics. The authors, however, do not intend for this book to be a comprehensive overview of the APA code of ethics, ethical decision-making in clinical psychology or in specialty areas. The vignettes and their analyses offer psychologists, mental health professionals, and students a unique opportunity to explore their own values in a variety of ethically problematic situations. Central themes recurring throughout the book include the importance of being cognizant of one's own values and biases, having a decision-making model for dealing with potential ethical issues, and consulting with colleagues regarding ethics problems.
Child Homicide
Parents Who Kill
Lita Linzer Schwartz & Natalie Isser (2007)
Child Homicide: Parents Who Kill
(Pacific Institute Series on Forensic Psychology)
Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Inc
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From governments that enact population-limiting legislation or commit wholesale neonaticide, to families who purposely allow a weak, infirm, or unfavorably gendered infant to perish rather than expend limited resources, neonaticide, infanticide, and filicide, are practiced on every continent and by every level of cultural complexity. Taking an objective and diagnostic approach, Child Homicide: Parents Who Kill examines the crime of neonaticide from all angles including historical, cultural, psychological, and legal. Expanding on the first edition, published as Endangered Children: Neonaticide, Infanticide, and Filicide, this edition details child homicide in its many forms such as shaken baby syndrome and Munchausen-by-Proxy as well as the differing circumstances involved in infanticide and filicide. Unlike many books on the subject, it investigates the behavior of the father--deemed responsible in roughly 75 percent of these cases--whether aggressive, complicit, or merely absent, and his ultimate culpability under the law. The authors study the influence of today's media, and how its lightning-fast dissemination of these shocking and often complicated stories affect public opinion, copycat crime, and legal bias. This book explains legal defenses including insanity, differential post partum diagnosis such as post-partum psychosis, and discusses new policies, more appropriate, therapeutic punishments, and preventive measures. Child Homicide: Parents Who Kill places this phenomenon in its historical, cultural, and human context and makes us realize that this is not just someone else's nightmare
Disorders of Executive Functioning
Civil and Criminal Law Applications
Harold V. Hall & Robert Sbordone (Editors, 1993)
Disorders of Executive Functioning: Civil and Criminal Law Applications
Winter Park, FL: PMD Publishers Group, Inc.
This book is the culmination of more than 20 years of study, research, and the direct evaluation of thousands of forensic clients. The authors provide the reader with the highest caliber of professionalism and make clear that the current state of the art in deception analysis is crude to say the least. They challenge readers to closely examine their own decision processes in regard to deception. And they admit that they have no sympathy for the common complaint that proper deception analysis requires much time and effort, which can be a burden to the busy professional. They make clear that the days of administering an MMPI and a Rorschach to a client and thereby knowing everything there is to know about that person are gone forever.
Violence Prediction
Guidelines for the Forensic Practitioner
Harold V. Hall (1987)
Violence Prediction: Guidelines for the Forensic Practitioner
Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publishers, Ltd.
This book is the culmination of more than 20 years of study, research, and the direct evaluation of thousands of forensic clients. The authors provide the reader with the highest caliber of professionalism and make clear that the current state of the art in deception analysis is crude to say the least. They challenge readers to closely examine their own decision processes in regard to deception. And they admit that they have no sympathy for the common complaint that proper deception analysis requires much time and effort, which can be a burden to the busy professional. They make clear that the days of administering an MMPI and a Rorschach to a client and thereby knowing everything there is to know about that person are gone forever.
Understanding and Preventing Violence
The Psychology of Human Destructiveness
Leighton C. Whitaker (2000)
Understanding and Preventing Violence: The Psychology of Human Destructiveness
Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, LLC.
More violence has been perpetrated in the 20th century than in the two previous centuries combined. Understanding and Preventing Violence: Unmasking the Mentality of Human Destructiveness elucidates the mentality of destructive behavior with the hopes that in the future, the trend may be reversed through enlightenment. But in order to choose to be constructive, rather than destructive, there must first be an understanding. This book takes a hard look at an alarming trend. It provides a focused view of the new wave of violence - from the individual to the global levels. It. traces the influence of sexuality and the anxiety of death on human mentality and suggests ways to reverse the increase in destructive behavior. It helps criminologists with profiling and spotting trends and aids psychologists by deepening the understanding of their severely character-disordered or sociopathic patients. The author delves into the reasons and motivations prompting destructive behavior in order to promote a constructive reaction to what has become commonplace in society - senseless violent acts. Aimed at forensic and clinical psychologists, sociologists, criminal defense attorneys and criminologists, Leighton C. Whitaker delivers a work that provides an understanding of the psychodynamics of violence and the role it plays in society.
