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Peer reviewedMotto, Jerome A. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1991
Compares the empirical and clinical approaches as methods for assessment of suicide risk. Concludes that the optimum approach is to utilize both methods according to differences in setting, circumstances, available time, condition and cooperativeness of the person assessed, and training experience and style of the clinician. Modifying issues for…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Predictive Measurement, Risk, Suicide
Direct linkCraig, Leam A.; Beech, Anthony; Browne, Kevin D. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2006
The predictive accuracy of the newly developed actuarial risk measures Risk Matrix 2000 Sexual/Violence (RMS, RMV) were cross validated and compared with two risk assessment measures (SVR-20 and Static-99) in a sample of sexual (n = 85) and nonsex violent (n = 46) offenders. The sexual offense reconviction rate for the sex offender group was 18%…
Descriptors: Validity, Sexual Abuse, Violence, Comparative Analysis
Applying a Forensic Actuarial Assessment (the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide) to Nonforensic Patients
Harris, Grant T.; Rice, Marnie E.; Camilleri, Joseph A.. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2004
The actuarial Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG) was developed for male offenders where it has shown excellent replicability in many new forensic samples using officially recorded outcomes. Clinicians also make decisions, however, about the risk of interpersonal violence posed by nonforensic psychiatric patients of both sexes. Could an actuarial…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Patients, Family Violence, Risk
