Structured Professional Guidelines: International Applications

International Perspectives on the Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Offenders: Theory, Practice, and Research

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 85-110

  Rettenberger, Martin ^a   Hucker, Stephen J ^b  

^a Federal Evaluation Centre for Violent and Sexual Offenders   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

"problem identification checklist"; Actuarial risk assessment instruments (ARAIs); Structured professional guidelines: international applications; Structured professional judgment (SPJ); The risk for sexual violence protocol (RSVP); The sexual violence risk 20 (SVR 20); Unstructured clinical judgment (UCJ)

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052372317     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119990420.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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