The past several years have seen a surge of interest in using risk assessment in criminal
sentencing, both to reduce recidivism by incapacitating or treating high-risk offenders and to …

Many instruments have been published in recent years to improve the ability of mental
health clinicians to estimate the likelihood that an individual will behave violently toward …

Providing equal justice for poor and rich, weak and powerful alike is an age-old problem.
People have never ceased to hope and strive to move closer to that goal.... In this tradition …

Over recent years, a variety of instruments that improve clinicians' ability to forecast the
likelihood that an individual will behave violently have been published. Increasingly, these …

Criminal Recidivism intends to fill a gap in the criminological psychology literature by
examining the processes underlying persistent criminal careers. This book aims to …

Formulation is the process or product of gathering and integrating diverse information to
develop a concise account of the nature and etiology of the problems affecting a person's …

A growing body of research has been dedicated to developing adolescent risk assessment
instruments, but much of this research has been limited to short-term tests of predictive …

Psychopathy as measured by the Hare Psychopathy Checklist—Revised (PCL–R; Hare,
1991, 2003) is related to a range of rule-breaking and antisocial behaviors. Given this …

The last several decades have seen a major upswing in the development and use of
psychological assessment instruments in forensic and correctional settings. At the same …

A group of 13 authors (GA) shared a statement of concern (SoC) warning against the use of
the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R; Hare, 1991, 2003) to assess risk for …