Predicting Future Reconviction in Offenders With Intellectual Disabilities: The Predictive Efficacy of VRAG, PCL-SV, and the HCR-20

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 474-479

  Gray, Nicola S ^a,b   Fitzgerald, Suzanne ^a   Taylor, John ^c   MacCulloch, Malcolm J ^a   Snowden, Robert J ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Caswell Clinic   (United Kingdom)

^c Kneesworth House Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

intellectual disability; recidivism; risk assessment; violence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CRIME; FEMALE; HISTORY,CLINICAL,RISK MANAGEMENT 20; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; OFFENDER; PSYCHOPATHY CHECKLIST SCREENING VERSION; RATING SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; VIOLENCE; VIOLENCE RISK APPRAISAL GUIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER CURVE; CRIME; CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL RETARDATION; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRISONERS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; VIOLENCE;

EID: 38549153786     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1040-3590.19.4.474     Document Type: Article

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