Violence Risk Assessment in Clinical Settings: Being Sure about Being Sure

Behavioral Sciences and the Law

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 74-80

  Buchanan, Alec ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FORECASTING; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; MENTAL HOSPITAL; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY; VIOLENCE;

FORECASTING; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84874298748     PISSN: 07353936     EISSN: 10990798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bsl.2045     Document Type: Article

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