PSYCH 3CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Psychopathy Checklist, Sex Offender, Response Bias
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Vrag: designed to predict future violence of people with a history of violent reoffending, 685 violent or sexually violent oak ridge offenders. Insanity acquittals and matched sample in oak ridge for one day between 1975 and. Vrag predictor variables: childhood history, adult adjustment, assessment results, they have all this information then follow them to see who becomes violent and who. Index offence. doesnt: they then choose variable which are most associated with violent reoffending, best predictor is psychopathy checklist . 34, victim injury, the more you hurt them, the less likely you are to violently reoffend. Sorag: sexual violent reoffending is an extension on the vrag with more items, predicting sexual reoffending is harder to predict. Critique of actuarial approach: definitional differences across instruments, not looking at the same things, method gives risks for groups, not individual, focus on static long term risk, what about non static things that are not fixed and unchanging.
