## Abstract **Introduction** Previous research has shown that the prediction of short‐term inpatient violence is negatively affected when clinicians' inter‐rater agreement is low and when confidence in the estimate of risk is low. This study examined the effect of discordance between risk assessmen
The validity of the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG) in predicting criminal recidivism
✍ Scribed by Carolin Kröner; Cornelis Stadtland; Matthias Eidt; Norbert Nedopil
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 177 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0957-9664
- DOI
- 10.1002/cbm.644
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