CRM/LAW C118 Lecture 13: c118wk7lec2
21 Feb 2019
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Not everyone has same causal pathways that lead to violence. Intervention/prevention needs to be tailored to the nature of the persons involved. Way that you treat some offenders is very different from how you treat others. Risk assessment: variation in the likelihood of the onset, desistance, persistence, or escalation of perpetration. Typologies of perpetrators: variation in the common characteristics of perpetrators. What characteristics group different types of perpetrators together. Look for the variables that contribute to these factors. Attempts to estimate the likelihood of repeated violence in the future. Make determination based off of what perpetrator has done regarding their behavior in the future. Risk of persistence: continuation of violence in the future. Risk of escalation: increased frequency or seriousness in future (perhaps to lethal proportions -> domestic homicide) Someone with clinical training has responsibility to assess risk that person poses to others based on their clinical/human experience.
