The construction and validation of the oasys violence predictor: Advancing violence risk assessment in the english and welsh correctional services

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 287-307

  Howard, Philip D ^a   Dixon, Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AUC; dynamic risk factors; OASys; UK correctional services; violence risk assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856849502     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854811431239     Document Type: Article

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