Psychiatric assessments for predicting violence are ineffective

Thursday, November 12, 2015 - 12:50 in Psychology & Sociology

Standard approaches for investigating risk of violence in psychiatric patients and prisoners are inaccurate and should be abandoned in all future studies, according to researchers from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). In a study published in PLOS One the team have proposed an entirely new approach to risk assessment for future violence. Previous approaches […]

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