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 …

BackgroundSchizophrenia is known to be associated with a range of adverse outcomes,
which have an impact at the societal level and are therefore of public concernAimsTo …

The history of risk assessment in criminal justice has been written on several occasions
(Andrews & Bonta, 2003; Clements, 1996; Hollin, 2002). Here we assess progress since …

How do we understand mental health problems in their social context? A former BMA
Medical Book of the Year award winner, this book provides a sociological analysis of major …

The present meta-analysis integrated effect sizes from 95 non-overlapping studies (N=
15,826) to summarize the relation between Hare Psychopathy Checklists and antisocial …

The concept of warning behaviors offers an additional perspective in threat assessment.
Warning behaviors are acts which constitute evidence of increasing or accelerating risk …

An open source sample of 111 lone-actor terrorists from the United States and Europe were
studied through the lens of the Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol (TRAP-18). This …

Using 88 studies from 1980 to 2006, a meta-analysis compares risk instruments and other
psychological measures on their ability to predict general (primarily nonsexual) violence in …

we (1) provide a synthesis and interpretation of criminal recidivism prediction research,
focusing on recent meta-analytic studies and the impact of methodological and …

Accurate predictions of future reconviction, including those for violent crimes, have been
shown to be greatly aided by the use of formal risk assessment instruments. However, it is …