Violence Risk Assessment and Women: Predictive Accuracy of the HCR-20 in a Civil Psychiatric Sample

Behavioral Sciences and the Law

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 623-633

  Garcia Mansilla, Alexandra ^a   Rosenfeld, Barry ^a   Cruise, Keith R ^b  

^a Clinical Director   (United States)

^b FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; VIOLENCE; WOMEN;

EID: 80052932212     PISSN: 07353936     EISSN: 10990798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bsl.1005     Document Type: Article

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