Actuarial Risk Assessments in USA Courtrooms

Assessment and Treatment of Sex Offenders: A Handbook

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 551-566

  Doren, Dennis M ^a  

^a Sand Ridge Secure Treatment Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Actuarial instrumentation; Actuarial risk assessments; Evidentiary admissibility standards; Inherently inaccurate arguments; Recidivism risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886487523     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470714362.ch29     Document Type: Chapter

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