The Liverpool Violence Assessment: An investigator-based measure of serious violence

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 106-120

  Nathan, Rajan ^a,c   Rollinson, Lynn ^b   Harvey, Katie ^b   Hill, Jonathan ^b  

^a Mersey Forensic Psychiatry Service   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c Scott Clinic   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVIEW; LIVERPOOL VIOLENCE ASSESSMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OBSERVER VARIATION; OFFENDER; PSYCHOPATHY; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL DISABILITY; STANDARDIZATION; STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEW FOR DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL FOR MENTAL DISORDERS IV; UNITED KINGDOM; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0242360765     PISSN: 09579664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cbm.534     Document Type: Review

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