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Violent offenders: Appraising and managing risk, 2nd ed.
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Psychopathy as a clinical and empirical construct.
Robert D. Hare,Craig S. Neumann +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on two major influences on current conceptualizations of psychopathy: one clinical, with its origins largely in the early case studies of Cleckley, and the other empirical, the result of widespread use of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) for assessment purposes.
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The accuracy of recidivism risk assessments for sexual offenders: a meta-analysis of 118 prediction studies.
TL;DR: Empirically derived actuarial measures were more accurate than unstructured professional judgment for all outcomes (sexual, violent, or any recidivism) and structured professional judgment was intermediate between the accuracy found for the actuarial Measures and for unstructuring professional judgment.
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A comparative study of violence risk assessment tools: a systematic review and metaregression analysis of 68 studies involving 25,980 participants.
TL;DR: A tool designed to detect violence risk in juveniles, the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY), produced the highest rates of predictive validity, while an instrument used to identify adults at risk for general offending, the Level of Service Inventory-Revised (LSI-R), and a personality scale commonly used for the purposes of risk assessment produced the lowest.
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Pedophilia and Sexual Offending Against Children: Theory, Assessment, and Intervention
TL;DR: Seto et al. as mentioned in this paper discussed the relationship between pedophilia and sexual offending against children, and how to assess risk to sexually offend and what do we know about intervention and prevention to reduce the occurrence of sexual offenses against children.
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Psychosis as a risk factor for violence to others: a meta-analysis.
TL;DR: A quantitative review of research on the association between psychosis and violence indicated that psychosis was significantly associated with a 49%-68% increase in the odds of violence, however, there was substantial dispersion among effect sizes.
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TL;DR: The concepts of power analysis are discussed in this paper, where Chi-square Tests for Goodness of Fit and Contingency Tables, t-Test for Means, and Sign Test are used.
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A power primer.
TL;DR: A convenient, although not comprehensive, presentation of required sample sizes is providedHere the sample sizes necessary for .80 power to detect effects at these levels are tabled for eight standard statistical tests.
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The Genetical Evolution of Social Behaviour. I
TL;DR: A genetical mathematical model is described which allows for interactions between relatives on one another's fitness and a quantity is found which incorporates the maximizing property of Darwinian fitness, named “inclusive fitness”.