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DOI: 10.1177/0886260504267745 Advances in the Assessment and Prediction of Interpersonal ViolenceCarleton University, Ottawa, Ontario This article underscores the weakness of clinical judgment as a mechanism for prediction with examples from other areas in the psychological literature. Clinical judgment has as its Achilles’heel the reliance on a person to incorporate multiple pieces of information while overcoming human judgment errors—a feat insurmountable thus far. The actuarial approach to risk assessment has overcome many of the weaknesses of clinical judgment and has been shown to be a much superior method. Nonetheless, the static/historical nature of the risk factors associated with most actuarial approaches is limiting. Advances in risk prediction will be found in part in the development of dynamic actuarial instruments that will measure both static/historical and changeable risk factors. The dynamic risk factors can be reevaluated on an ongoing basis, and it is proposed that the level of change in dynamic factors necessary to represent a significant change in overall risk will be an interactive function with static risk factors.
Key Words: violence • risk assessment • dynamic actuarial
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