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Risk assessment: still a risky business

Herschel Prins (Midlands Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Loughborough)

The British Journal of Forensic Practice

ISSN: 1463-6646

Article publication date: 1 February 2002

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Abstract

There are three themes in this short paper. First, a brief historical context; second, the semantics of ‘dangerousness’ and ‘risk’; third, some issues that emerge from recent inquiries into homicides committed by persons known to the psychiatric service.

Citation

Prins, H. (2002), "Risk assessment: still a risky business", The British Journal of Forensic Practice, Vol. 4 No. 1, pp. 3-8. https://doi.org/10.1108/14636646200200002

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