Assessing Risk for Violence among Male and Female Civil Psychiatric Patients: The HCR-20, PCL:SV, and VSC

Behavioral Sciences and the Law

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 127-158

  Nicholls, Tonia L ^a   Ogloff, James R P ^b   Douglas, Kevin S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRIME; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; PREDICTION; PSYCHOPATHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIOLENCE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; VIOLENCE;

EID: 1542343996     PISSN: 07353936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bsl.579     Document Type: Article

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