Risk assessment tools in criminal justice and forensic psychiatry: the need for better data
Violence risk assessment tools are increasingly used within criminal justice and forensic psychiatry, however there is little relevant, reliable and unbiased data regarding their predictive accuracy. We argue that such data are needed to (i) prevent excessive reliance on risk assessment scores, (ii)...
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2016
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| author | Fazel, S Douglas, T Singh, I Savulescu, J Pugh, J |
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| description | Violence risk assessment tools are increasingly used within criminal justice and forensic psychiatry, however there is little relevant, reliable and unbiased data regarding their predictive accuracy. We argue that such data are needed to (i) prevent excessive reliance on risk assessment scores, (ii) allow matching of different risk assessment tools to different contexts of application, (iii) protect against problematic forms of discrimination and stigmatisation, and (iv) ensure that contentious demographic variables are not prematurely removed from risk assessment tools. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:19e0960e-21c7-4112-b820-d872d21e06a82022-03-26T10:51:27ZRisk assessment tools in criminal justice and forensic psychiatry: the need for better dataJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:19e0960e-21c7-4112-b820-d872d21e06a8Symplectic Elements at OxfordElsevier2016Fazel, SDouglas, TSingh, ISavulescu, JPugh, JViolence risk assessment tools are increasingly used within criminal justice and forensic psychiatry, however there is little relevant, reliable and unbiased data regarding their predictive accuracy. We argue that such data are needed to (i) prevent excessive reliance on risk assessment scores, (ii) allow matching of different risk assessment tools to different contexts of application, (iii) protect against problematic forms of discrimination and stigmatisation, and (iv) ensure that contentious demographic variables are not prematurely removed from risk assessment tools. |
| spellingShingle | Fazel, S Douglas, T Singh, I Savulescu, J Pugh, J Risk assessment tools in criminal justice and forensic psychiatry: the need for better data |
| title | Risk assessment tools in criminal justice and forensic psychiatry: the need for better data |
| title_full | Risk assessment tools in criminal justice and forensic psychiatry: the need for better data |
| title_fullStr | Risk assessment tools in criminal justice and forensic psychiatry: the need for better data |
| title_full_unstemmed | Risk assessment tools in criminal justice and forensic psychiatry: the need for better data |
| title_short | Risk assessment tools in criminal justice and forensic psychiatry: the need for better data |
| title_sort | risk assessment tools in criminal justice and forensic psychiatry the need for better data |
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