Predicting Severity of Violent Recidivism by Aggression Type: What do Risk Instruments, Cognitive and Personality Scales Contribute?

This study provides an initial analysis of how effective commonly used risk assessment and psychological tests are in postdicting the severity of the index offense and the individual’s most severe offense in a forensic inpatient sample. The study involved a chart review of risk assessment measures,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Douglass, Melanie Dawn
Other Authors: Nussbaum, David
Language:en_ca
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/18283