Safeguarding the Quality of Forensic Assessment in Sentencing

This edited collection provides an interdisciplinary and cross-national perspective on safeguarding forensic risk assessment in sentencing violent offenders.

Michiel van der Wolf is a professor of Forensic Psychiatry at Leiden University and associate professor in Criminal Law at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

1. Introduction Michiel van der Wolf 2. Contemplations and discussions on the quality of forensic assessment in sentencing: Puzzling pieces for decision-makers Michiel van der Wolf & Michiel de Vries-Robbé 3. An English perspective Adrian Grounds & Nicola Padfield 4. An American perspective Christopher King, Lauren Grove, Brooke Stettler & Sharon Kelley 5. A Canadian perspective Michelle S. Lawrence & David W. Morgan 6. An Australian perspective Jamie Walvisch & Andrew Carroll 7. A German perspective Johannes Kaspar & Susanne Stübner 8. A Swedish perspective Tova Bennet, Malin Hildebrand Karlén & Lena Wahlberg 9. A Dutch perspective Michiel van der Wolf, Hjalmar van Marle & Sabine Roza 10. Comparative analysis Michiel van der Wolf