Psychology 2032A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Risk Assessment, Systematic Risk, Risk Management
22 Sep 2020
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Crime & corrections chapter 10 textbook notes risk assessment. If a person is sentenced to prison in canada, he/she can apply to the. It is difficult to make accurate predictions when the base rates are too high or too low. A history of risk assessment: before 1966, relatively little attention was paid to how well professionals could assess risk of violence. In the 1960s, civil rights concerns provided the rare opportunity to study the accuracy of mental health professionals in predicting violence: baxstrom v. herald (1966) case. Crime & corrections chapter 10 textbook notes risk assessment: how the criterion variable is defined. Instead of just has the participant engaged in violence or not, should include severity of violence, types of violence, targets of violence, and motivation. It is likely that some risk factors will be associated with certain forms of violence: e. g. a history of sexual offences may predict future sexual offences but not future bank robberies.
