Psychology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Threat Assessment, Mental Health Professional, Risk Management
22 Sep 2020
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Crime & corrections lecture 9 risk & threat assessment: false positives person falsely blamed, real perpetrator still out there, false negativities implications for victims/society, individual gets out and might reoffend. Issues with how the criterion variable (or the variable that"s being measured) is measured. Issues with how what we"re trying to measure is being measured: usually use recidivism to predict, definition of the criterion variable. What are risk factors: = what we measure, static, risk factors that don"t change over time and are not amendable to change, e. g. age of first offence, age, mental health history, dynamic, criminogenic needs . Coping-relapse model: theory for reoffending; shows recidivism process, *read more about this in textbook notes* Women"s risk needs assessments: utilizes gender neutral factors, substance abuse, criminal history, financial problems, utilizes gender responsive factors, sexual trauma, mental health, relationship conflict, mostly used in female prison populations, not so much in forensics, e. g.
