Concept information
Preferred term
violence risk assessment
Definition
- Violence risk assessment is a decision-making task that transpires in numerous legal and clinical settings in which the possibility of a person's future violent behavior is of concern. Common contexts in which violence risk assessment occurs include involuntary civil commitment, release from prison or forensic hospital, sentencing, transfer of youths to adult court, and sexually violent predator determinations. [Source: Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law; Violence Risk Assessment]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- classification of violence risk
- danger assessment instrument
- domestic violence screening instruments
- Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised
- Hare Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version
- Hare Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version
- HCR-20
- jail screening assessment tool
- MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study
- Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument-Version 2
- Minnesota Sex Offender Screening Tool-Revised
- novaco anger scale
- psychopathic personality inventory
- psychopathy
- Rapid Risk Assessment for Sexual Offense Recidivism
- risk assessment approaches
- sex offender assessment
- sex offender civil commitment
- Sex Offender Needs Assessment Rating
- sex offender recidivism
- Sex Offender Risk Appraisal Guide
- Sexual Violence Risk-20
- short-term assessment of risk and treatability
- spousal assault risk assessment
- stable-2007 and acute-2007 instruments
- static-99 and static-2002 instruments
- Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth
- substance abuse and intimate partner violence
- substance use disorders
- treatment of psychopathy
- Violence Risk Appraisal Guide
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/violence_risk_assessment
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