Risk assessment: still a risky business
Herschel Prins
(Midlands Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Loughborough)
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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
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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