A new book by Dr. Mark D. Cunningham, ​“Evaluation for Capital Sentencing,” pro­vides con­cep­tu­al and prac­ti­cal per­spec­tives on mit­i­ga­tion and vio­lence risk assess­ment, as well as cur­rent sci­en­tif­ic data regard­ing these issues. The book focus­es on infor­ma­tion crit­i­cal to foren­sic men­tal health pro­fes­sion­als who con­duct eval­u­a­tions in cap­i­tal cas­es. Prof. Andrea Lyon, Director of the Center for Justice in Capital Cases in Chicago, said, ​“This book is an invalu­able tool for men­tal health prac­ti­tion­ers, mit­i­ga­tion spe­cial­ists and attor­neys. Written in an acces­si­ble style, it puts in one place every­thing a men­tal health pro­fes­sion­al would need to know about doing assess­ment — and teach­es the sci­ence and law of mit­i­ga­tion while it is at it.” Dr. Cunningham is Board Certified in Clinical Psychology and in Forensic Psychology. The book is part of a series enti­tled ​“Best Practices in Forensic Mental Health Assessment” pub­lished by Oxford University Press.

(M. Cunningham, ​“Evaluation for Capital Sentencing,” Oxford University Press, 2010). See more Books on the Death Penalty.

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