Predicting and understanding risk of re-offending: the Prisoner Cohort Study
Date: 18 October 2007
The Prisoner Cohort Study examined: the predictive accuracy of established risk assessment instruments for violent offenders; the prevalence of offenders potentially classifiable as dangerous and severely personality disordered (DSPD); their reconvictions after release; the element of risk attributable to DSPD; the likely relationship between DSPD and indeterminate sentences.
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