ABSTRACT
In 2001, the first author was asked to conduct a psychological evaluation focused on “Glen’s” risk for violent behavior and to testify in his Dangerous Offender hearing in British Columbia. During this hearing, I was asked to outline Glen’s major risk factors for the court, to which I responded that the major relevant characteristics included sadism, psychopathy, and a serious anger management problem. The lawyer then asked for an opinion on the severity of his anger problem relative to other offenders I had assessed. As I was giving the opinion that Glen’s anger management problem was “the worst I had come across in all the offenders I have assessed, Glen attempted to bound out of the prisoner’s dock screaming that he did not have a “f---ing anger management problem!”
