PSYC 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Rape Kit, Psychopathy, W. M. Keck Observatory
24 Feb 2014
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Us- forensic psychology conference they"d ask why all the canadians are researching risk assessment don andrews, bob hare (ubc, psychopathy), jim. Bonta public safety, system to track people everywhere: this doesn"t exist in us. Quiz 3: did well mean was 75, over 50% in a range. Violence risk assessment: two components prediction and management, used to be that in the 70s- 80s, people would say risk assessment is used to determine whether someone is dangerous or not dichotomy, we"ve gone past that no longer a dichotomy. Looking at range instead, and probabilities (likelihood that someone would do a violent act: used to be prediction now it"s prediction and management (want to mitigate the risk) When would risk assessment be needed: civil settings and criminal settings, so many risk assessment tools, blue: civil settings. School threats someone sends e-mail to teacher/student saying he/she is pissed off, upset, student forwards e-mail to teacher, principal, committee.
