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The Utility of Clinical and Actuarial Risk Assessment for Offenders in Pre-Release Psychiatric Decision-Making
Publication year:
2000
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The benefits to recidivism prediction that result from the combined use of actuarial risk assessments and clinical judgments are investigated. Contents of this report include: executive summary; introduction; method -- participants, measures, and procedure; results -- recidivism by type of outcome, recidivism by type of release, clinical risk assessment, actuarial assessment, intercorrelations, and predicting recidivism; and discussion. There was a recidivism rate of 55.1% for these violent offenders.