Predicting violence in the violent society |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Neurology, University Hospital “12 de Octubre”, Madrid, Spain;2. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas, (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain;3. Department of Medicine, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain;4. Department of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA;5. Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA;6. Center for Neuroepidemiology and Clinical Neurological Research, Yale School of Medicine and Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA;7. Faculty of Biosanitary Sciences, Francisco de Vitoria University, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain;8. Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA;9. HM CINAC, HM Hospitales, Móstoles, Madrid, Spain;1. Department of Management, University of Alabama, United States;2. Department of Management, Concordia University, Canada |
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| Abstract: | It is argued (a) that the leadership position of the United States in respect to our domestic rates of interpersonal violence is likely to remain unchallenged so long as public policy continues to encourage and support the rearing of biologically susceptible children by parents (especially single parents) who are unwilling or unable to socialize those children. This high incidence of violent crime in America underscores the importance of two additional issues of special interest to psychologists: (b) Are mental health professionals able to predict violence in individual mental patients or in criminal offenders (and how accurate do such predictions need to be in order to meet ethical standards)? and (c) How should clinicians apportion their “duty to protect” between their patients and their patients' potential victims? These issues are briefly reviewed, and the interested reader is referred to more comprehensive discussions in the recent literature. |
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