PSYC 379 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Medical History, Risk Assessment, Predictive Validity
10 Sep 2016
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Week 2 1: introduction to risk assessment. Risk assessment: the process of evaluating individuals to characterize the risk they will commit acts of violence and develop interventions to manage or reduce that risk: violence prevention is part of the process. Risk is influenced by contextual factors or environment. First generation: clinical judgment: done by corrections workers and clinical professionals who went with their gut and provided rough estimates based on experience. Second generation: evidence based tools: relied on research to identify items under risk categories, atheoretical nature of these instruments had a problem. Ex: moustache related to offender but does not tell us how or why: these tools relied heavily on historical factors which would not allow changes of risk level in relation to change of offender circumstances. Third generation: evidence based and dynamic risk factors: dynamic risk factors allowed tools to be sensitive to the offender"s circumstances, identify potential targets for intervention.
