Statistical risk assessment: Old problems and new applications

Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 178-200

  Gottfredson, Stephen D ^a,b   Moriarty, Laura J ^a,b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b L Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs   (United States)

Author keywords

Correctional prediction; Prediction based risk assessment; Risk assessment; Statistically based risk assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 30344431512     PISSN: 00111287     EISSN: 1552387X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011128705281748     Document Type: Review

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