Cultural Context Important for Violence Risk Assessment in Australian Aboriginal Offenders
Consideration of cultural context is important for the evaluation of risk for violence in Australian Aboriginal Offenders and, by extension, other cultural minority groups. This is the bottom line of a recently published article in Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. Below is a summary of the research and findings as well as a translation of […]
Call for Proposals: American Psychology-Law Society
March 19-21, 2015 | San Diego, California The 2015 AP-LS Annual Meeting will be held from March 19- 21 at the Westin Gaslamp Quarter in San Diego, CA. We invite proposals for symposia, papers, and posters addressing topics in all areas of psychology and law; proposals that are empirically based, practice oriented, or that involve […]
Evaluator Differences in PCL-R Scores Suggest Need for Training
Differences in PCL-R scores between evaluators indicate some degree of variability in scoring attributable to evaluators, although these differences were less amongst evaluators who had received formal training on the PCL-R. This is the bottom line of a recently published article in Law and Human Behavior. Below is a summary of the research and findings […]
Call for Papers: North American Correctional and Criminal Justice Psychology Conference
June 4-6, 2015 | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Correctional and Criminal Justice is a specialty area in psychology. It is not simply about taking what works for the general population and putting it to work within a correctional setting. It is about adapting psychology to the client, adapting to the organizations that correctional and criminal justice […]
Sexual Abuse a Salient Predictor of Recidivism for Juvenile Females, Not Males
A history of sexual abuse was a salient predictor of recidivism for young female offenders, but not for young male offenders. This is the bottom line of a recently published article in Law and Human Behavior. Below is a summary of the research and findings as well as a translation of this research into practice. […]
Free Article: Juvenile Justice Interventions
The Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, published by Taylor & Francis, has made the following article available free of charge until the end of 2014. To access the article please click the title of the article below. To download a PDF of the article, please click here. Juvenile Justice Interventions: System Escalation and Effective Alternatives to […]
Use of the HCR-V3 in Criminal, Civil, and Pretrial Settings
Taylor & Francis has made the recently published Special Issue of the International Journal of Forensic Mental Health available for free download until the end of the year. Check out these great articles on the HCR-20 Version 3. Introduction to the Special Issue of the HCR-20 Version 3 Author Kevin S. Douglas Abstract The HCR-20 […]
Free Article: Conviction Odds in Chicago Homicide Cases – Does Race/Ethnicity Matter?
The Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice, published by Taylor & Francis, has made the following article available free of charge until the end of 2014. To access the article please click the title of the article below. To download a PDF of the article, please click here. Conviction Odds in Chicago Homicide Cases: Does […]
Use of the HCR-V3 in The Netherlands, Germany, England, and Wales
Taylor & Francis has made the recently published Special Issue of the International Journal of Forensic Mental Health available for free download until the end of the year. Check out these great articles on the HCR-20 Version 3. Introduction to the Special Issue of the HCR-20 Version 3 Author Kevin S. Douglas Abstract The HCR-20 […]
Free Article: The Impact of Indigenous Status on Adult Sentencing
The Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice, published by Taylor & Francis, has made the following article available free of charge until the end of 2014. To access the article please click the title of the article below. To download a PDF of the article, please click here. The Impact of Indigenous Status on Adult […]
FREE Special Issue on the HCR-20 Version 3
Looking for a little summer reading? Taylor & Francis have made the recently published Special Issue of the International Journal of Forensic Mental Health available for free download until the end of the year. Check out these great articles on the HCR-20 Version 3. Introduction to the Special Issue of the HCR-20 Version 3 Author […]
Free Article: Assessing Risk for Violence using SPJ Guidelines
The Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice, published by Taylor & Francis, has made the following article available free of charge until the end of 2014. To access the article please click the title of the article below. To download a PDF of the article, please click here. Assessing Risk of Violence Using Structured Professional Judgment […]