Description: I. Violence by the Mentally Ill: Prevalence, Triggers, and Determinants.- Major Mental Disorders and Crime in the Community: A Focus on Patient Populations and Cohort Investigations.- Reducing Violence Risk: Diagnostically Based Clues from the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study.- Immediate Precursors of Violence Among Persons with Mental Illness: A Return to a Situational Perspective.- Commentary: Monahan and Appelbaum, "Reducing Violence Risk: Diagnostically Based Clues from the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study"; Steadman and Silver, "Immediate Precursors of Violence Among Persons with Mental Illness: A Return to a Situational Perspective".- Etiological Factors Linked to Criminal Violence and Adult Mental Illness.- Commentary: Tehrani and Mednick, "Etiological Factors Linked to Criminal Violence and Adult Mental Illness".- The Etiology and Development of Offending Among Persons with Major Mental Disorders: Conceptual and Methodological Issues and Some Preliminary Findings.- II. Assessment, Effective Treatment, and Management.- Capturing Change: An Approach to Managing Violence and Improving Mental Health.- Treatment Implications of the Antecedents of Criminality and Violence in Schizophrenia and Major Affective Disorders.- Pharmacological Intervention for Preventing Violence Among the Mentally Ill with Secondary Alcohol-and Drung-Use Disorders.- Pharmacological Interventions for Preventing Violence Among the Mentally Ill with Co-occurring Personality Disorders.- III. Preventing Violence in Hospitals.- Institutional Violence Among the Mentally Ill.- High-Risk Factors for Violence: Emerging Evidence and Its Relevance to Effective Treatment and Prevention of Violence on Psychiatric Wards.- Violence Against Others by Psychiatric HospitalInpatients with Psychosis: Prevention Strategies and Challenges to Their Evaluation.- Effective Treatment Strategies for Preventing Violence on Psychiatric Wards.- IV. Preventing Violence in Correctional Facilities.- Major Mental Disorder and Violence in Correctional Settings: Size, Specificity, and Implications for Practice.- Effective Treatment for Disturbed Violent Prisoners?.- V. Preventing Violence in the Community.- The Efficacy and Effectiveness of Community Treatment Programmes in Preventing Crime and Violence Among Those with Severe Mental Illness in the Community.- Commentary: Heilbrun and Peters, "The Efficacy and Effectiveness of Community Treatment Programmes in Preventing Crime and Violence Among Those with Severe Mental Illness in the Community".- Social Services Necessary for Community Treatment Programmes Designed to Prevent Crime and Violence Among Persons with Major Mental Disorders.- Social and Community Services and the Risk for Violence Among People with Serious Psychiatric Disorders: In Search of Mechanisms.- Community Treatment Programmes in Europe and the United Kingdom That Have Proven Effective in Preventing Violence by the Mentally Ill in the Community: Administrative, Organizational, Legal, and Clinical Aspects.- Treatment of Mentally Ill Offenders in the Community: A Clinical Perspective.

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