PSYC 3402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Sexual Assault, Psychopathy
2 Feb 2017
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23% of charges in adult court are violent. Offenders: goes down to 12% if common assault and weapons are removed. What crimes are defined as violent: homicide and reacted, robbery, sexual assault, major assaults, common assaults, uttering threats, criminal harassment, breach in no contact, high predictor of intimate partner violence. Typical federal offender: white male aged 30-39 in medium security, serving 4-5 year sentence for. Robbery: no hs education, poor employment history, previous youth/adult sentence, impulsive, poor problem solving, drug history, canada has a much lower crime and homicide rate compared to the. Assessment tools: based on predictive validity which risk scale would you use? (exam. Greatest predictive accuracy if money is no object: saq. Self-report is almost the same predictive validity and way less expensive to do: any of these scales work better then a clinical-judgment. Therefore it is very highly predictive with lower resources needed.
