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Innovative international risk assessment service is expanding
Try your hand at answering these questions: When evaluating Aboriginal offenders, how valid are standard risk assessment protocols? Among C...
Risk researchers launching premium literature service
The Alliance for International Risk Research (AIRR) is launching an excellent new risk assessment resource for mental health, correctional, ...
Documentary explores town's polarization over transgender murder
Forensic psychologist key element in gay panic defense For 20 minutes, Brandon McInerney sat patiently behind Larry King in their junior hig...
Study: Risk tools don't work with psychopaths
If you want to know whether that psychopathic fellow sitting across the table from you will commit a violent crime within the next three yea...
Free, one-stop shopping: Bulletin showcases new violence articles
The first monthly bulletin from the Alliance for International Risk Research just hit my email box, collating August's journal offering...
'Authorship bias' plays role in research on risk assessment tools, study finds
Reported predictive validity higher in studies by an instrument's designers than by independent researchers The use of actuarial risk as...
Violence prevention: DC to host major collaborative venture
From U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to legal scholar Barbara Bennett Woodhouse , the speakers at next month's APA-ABA collaborative c...
International violence risk researchers launch free news service
I don't know about you, but I find it incredibly hard to keep up with the burgeoning research in risk assessment. In this era of interna...
Study links childhood trauma and adult aggression
Call for trauma-focused treatment of offenders Children who experience abuse, neglect and family dysfunction have a heightened risk of devel...
Showdown looming over predictive accuracy of actuarials
Large error rates thwart individual risk prediction Brett Jordan David Macdonald (Creative Commons license) If you are involved in risk as...
"The best predictor of future behavior is …
… past behavior." Past as prelude. So neat, so clean. So full of certitude. Like a fortune cookie Confucianism. Something you might hea...
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