As the penalty-phase trial of young white supremacist Dylann Roof gets underway this week, reporters have asked me to explain the psychologi...

Try your hand at answering these questions: When evaluating Aboriginal offenders, how valid are standard risk assessment protocols?  Am...

The Alliance for International Risk Research (AIRR) is launching an excellent new risk assessment resource for mental health, correctional...

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If you want to know whether that psychopathic fellow sitting across the table from you will commit a violent crime within the next three yea...

The first monthly bulletin from the Alliance for International Risk Research just hit my email box, collating August's journal offering...

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From U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to legal scholar Barbara Bennett Woodhouse , the speakers at next month's APA-ABA collaborative c...

I don't know about you, but I find it incredibly hard to keep up with the burgeoning research in risk assessment. In this era of inter...

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Large error rates thwart individual risk prediction Brett Jordan David Macdonald (Creative Commons license) If you are involved in ri...

… past behavior." Past as prelude. So neat, so clean. So full of certitude. Like a fortune cookie Confucianism. Something you might...