Rethinking Risk Assessment

• 1: Violence Risk Assessment: The Law and the Science 2: Violence Among Patients in the Community 3: Testing "Criminological" Risk Factors 4: Testing "Clinical" Risk Factors 5: Customizing Risk Assessment 6: Combining Customized Risk Assessment to Produce the Best Estimate of Risk 7: Violence and the Clinician: Assessing and Managing Risk Appendix A. The MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study: Methods Appendix B. Risk Factors and Associations with Violence

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