LAW & PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH

FACULTY


Edward P. Mulvey, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychiatry
Director, Law & Psychiatry Research
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
(P) 412-647-4720
(F) 412-647-4751

mulveyep@upmc.edu


Biographical Sketch

Edward P. Mulvey is a Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Law and Psychiatry Program at Western Psychiatry Institute and Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He received his B.A. in Psychology from Yale University in 1973, and his Ph.D. in Community/ Clinical Psychology from the University of Virginia in 1982. He also did post-doctoral training in quantitative methods in criminal justice at Carnegie Mellon University. He has been at the University of Pittsburgh since 1983. Dr. Mulvey is a Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society, a recipient of a Faculty Scholar's Award from the William T. Grant Foundation, a member of two MacArthur Foundation Research Networks (one on Mental Health and the Law and another on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice), and a member of the Steering Committee for the National Science Foundation-funded National Consortium on Violence Research. His research has centered on issues related to the use of mental health treatment as a method of social control, primarily focused on how clinicians make judgments regarding the type of risk posed by adult mental patients and juvenile offenders.

Selected Publications:

Lidz, C., Mulvey, E., Gardner, W. (1993). The accuracy of predictions of violence to others. Journal of the American Medical Association, 269, 1007-1011.

Mulvey, E. & Lidz, C. (1995). Conditional prediction: A model for research on dangerousness to others in a new era International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 18, (2): 117-143.

Gardner, W., Lidz, C., Mulvey, E., Shaw, E. (1996).Clinical versus actuarial predictions of violence in patients with mental illnesses. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64 , (3): 602-609.

Steadman, H., Mulvey, E., Monahan, J., Robins, P., Appelbaum, P., Grisso, T., Roth, L., Silver, E. (1998). Violence by people discharged from acute psychiatric inpatient facilities and by others in the same neighborhoods. Archives of General Psychiatry, 55, 1-9.

Silver, E., Mulvey, E., Monahan, J., (1999). Assessing violence risk among discharged psychiatric patients: Toward an ecological approach. Law and Human Behavior, 23, 235-253.

Skeem, J. & Mulvey, E. (2001). Psychopathy and community violence among civil psychiatric patients: Results from the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 69, 358-374.

Mulvey, E. & Cauffman, E. (2001). The Inherent Limits of Predicting School Violence. American Psychologist, 56, 797-802.

Piquero A., Blumstein, A., Brame, R., Haapanen R., Mulvey, E., & Nagin, D. (2001). Assessing the Impact of Exposure Time and Incapacitation on Longitudinal Trajectories of Criminal Offending. Journal of Adolescent Research, 16, 54-74.

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