Premature reliance on the psychopathy checklist-revised in violence risk and threat assessment

Journal of Threat Assessment

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 53-66

  Freedman, David ^a  

^a Scientific Evidence Consultant   (United States)

Author keywords

PCL R; Reliability; Risk assessment; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958586139     PISSN: 15332608     EISSN: 15332616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J177v01n04_04     Document Type: Article

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