Integrating Risk Context Into Risk Assessments: The Risk Context Scale

Assessment

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 135-149

  Kroner, Daryl G ^a   Gray, Andrew L ^b   Goodrich, Ben ^c  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

context ratings; criminal risk assessment; mediation analysis; recidivism; risk context; Risk Context Scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875348821     PISSN: 10731911     EISSN: 15523489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073191111429613     Document Type: Article

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