Risk Assessment
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2002
Keywords
Risk analysis, Measurement, Psychopathology, Violence, Dangerousness, Personality Disorders, Psychopathology
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47944-3_5
Abstract
Risk assessment is, most generally, the process of understanding hazards to minimize their negative consequences. Although there are many areas at the interface of psychology and law where risk assessment is involved, this chapter will focus on assessment of risk for violence, in view of its important place in the field and the considerable level of research activity in this domain. We will focus much of our comments on assessment of the risk of violence among people with mental disorders, given the frequency with which this group is the subject of clinical and research attention in psychology and law. The chapter is organized into three major areas: recent advances, current issues, and recommendations for the future.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Risk Assessment, in J. R. P. Ogloff (Ed.), Taking Psychology and Law into the Twenty-First Century, Springer, p. 147-170
Scholar Commons Citation
McNiel, Dale E.; Borum, Randy; Douglas, Kevin S.; Hart, Stephen D.; Lyon, David R.; Sullivan, Lynne E.; and Hemphill, James F., "Risk Assessment" (2002). Mental Health Law & Policy Faculty Publications. 453.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/mhlp_facpub/453
