The main aim of this article is to identify systematic reviews of explanatory risk factors for
violence, offending, and delinquency. Explanatory risk factors are factors that are clearly …

BackgroundInterpersonal violence is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. The
strength and population effect of modifiable risk factors for interpersonal violence, and the …

To address the societal harms of violence, many violence prevention interventions have
been developed, tested, and implemented in the general population. These have been …

There are a large number of structured instruments that assist in the assessment of
antisocial, violent and sexual risk, and their use appears to be increasing in mental health …

Objective To investigate the predictive validity of tools commonly used to assess the risk of
violence, sexual, and criminal behaviour. Design Systematic review and tabular meta …

The objective of the present review was to examine how predictive validity is analyzed and
reported in studies of instruments used to assess violence risk. We reviewed 47 predictive …

Violence risk assessment has advanced considerably in the last 20 years. In the 1980s,
leading professionals questioned the very possibility of valid violence risk assessments; …

Over recent years, a variety of instruments that improve clinicians' ability to forecast the
likelihood that an individual will behave violently have been published. Increasingly, these …

Although it is widely believed that risk assessment tools can help manage risk of violence
and offending, it is unclear what evidence exists to support this view. As such, we conducted …

Background Early aggressive behaviour is a risk factor for later violence and criminal
behaviour. Despite over 20 years of violence prevention interventions being delivered in the …