PSYCH 3CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Schizophrenia, Personality Disorder, Psychopathy
8 Sep 2017
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Thornberry & jacoby (1979: 586 patients released form pennsylvania institution, 3 year return/recidivism rate = 23. 7, 4 year violent arrest record = 15, generally find clinicians over estimate violence risk. Inter-rate reliabilities low for both psychiatrists and teachers. Violence risk assessment research: actuarial methods: ignore the inaccurate clinician and rely on statistics data, structured professional judgment: increase clinician(cid:495)s accuracy by standardizing the assessment process. Violence risk appraisal guide (vrag: predict violence among offenders with prior violent episodes, 685 violent or sexually violent oak ridge offenders. Insanity acquittals and match sample in oak ridge for one day between 1975 and. Critique of actuarial approach: definitional differences across instruments (cid:494)violence(cid:495) defined differently (cid:494)sexual(cid:495) offenses range from rape to voyeurism/exhibitionism, focus on (cid:494)static(cid:495), long term risk, weak on info re amelioration, method gives risks for groups, not individual. Ignores dynamic, short term risk factors: what supports can we provide (training, groups)
