Phone: (434) 924-3632

E-mail: jmonahan@virginia.edu

Subject Area(s): Social science in law, forensic psychiatry, mental health, mental disorders, violence, competence, mental hospitals, criminology, law and psychiatry

All Courses: Social Science in the Law, Criminology

Current Course(s): Mental Health Law And Higher Education, Social Science In Law, Expertise, Science, And The Law Of Evidence

In the Media:

• "Rapid Emotional Swings Could Precede Violence" (The Science News, 04/21/2009)
• "Mental Illness Alone Is No Trigger for Violence" (Associated Press, 02/02/2009)
• "Tragedy Can Be Averted" (Washington Post, 08/19/2008)
• "Mentally Ill Unfairly Portrayed as Violent" (The Boston Globe, 02/25/2008)
• "Home-based Psychotherapy a Growing Field; Violence Extremely Rare" (Eagle-Tribune (MA), 02/10/2008)
• "Man vs Machine: How Computers Routed the Experts" (Financial Times, 09/01/2007)
• "Dramatic Use of Statistics in a $280 Billion - $800 Billion Cigarette Case" (blogspot.com, 08/09/2007)
• "To Know a Killer" (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 04/29/2007)
• "Literary Tragedy: Writing Profs Read Between the Lines" (The Hook, 04/26/2007)
• "Tech Tragedy has Implications for Dealing with Mentally Ill" (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 04/22/2007)
• "The Challenge of Preventing Violence Is Not Just an American Problem" (co-author) (The Guardian, 04/22/2007)
• "Mental Health, the Law and Predicting Violence" (Talk of the Nation (NPR), 04/18/2007)
• "Devotion to Most Severe Cases Raises Risk of Personal Danger" (The Washington Post, 09/05/2006)
• "Untrue Confessions/Startling Research Strikes at the Core of Criminal Prosecution; Eye Witnesses, Even Confessions, Turn Out To Be Unreliable" (Orange County [Calif.] Register/MSNBC, 10/10/2004)
• "Texas Study Challenges 'Violent Behavior' Predictions" (Los Angeles Times, 03/31/2004)
• "He Led a Rich Life and Left a Lasting Memory" (Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, 02/27/2004)
• "Duke University: Study To Examine Effectiveness For Mentally Ill Patients" (Biotech Week, 10/08/2003)
• "Advance Directives: Study To Examine Effectiveness For Mentally Ill Patients" (Mental Health Weekly Digest/Managed Care Weekly Digest/Health & Medicine Week, 10/06/2003)
• "National Institute of Mental Health Funds 1.98 Million Study to Examine Effectiveness of Advance Directives for Patients With Mental Illnesses" (Ascribe Newswire, 09/16/2003)
• "Juveniles and Competency" (Morning Edition/NPR, 03/04/2003)
• "Cleveland Clinic Isn't Liable in Slaying By Ex-Psychiatric Patient" (Fulton County Daily Report, 02/25/2003)
• "A Tightrope Victory" (National Law Journal, 02/21/2003)
• "Grade Inflation: Does A Stand for Average?" (The Virginian-Pilot, 02/09/2003)
• "Fort Bragg Killings Bear Some Similarities/ Highest Levels of the Army Are Troubled by Spate of Homicides at Fayetteville" (The Virginia-Pilot, 08/02/2002)
• "High Court to Reexamine Sexual Predator Law Crime: Freedom for a Serial Rapist, and Many Others, Hinges on Question of the Likelihood of Recidivism" (The Los Angeles Times, 02/26/2002)