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Peer reviewedMonahan, John; Cummings, Lesley – Journal of Social Issues, 1975
This review of the empirical literature reveals that violence is vastly over predicted, regardless of who is doing the predicting or how the predictions are made-yet much current social policy in the areas of mental health and criminal justice assumes that psychologists and psychiatrists can accurately predict who will be physically violent.…
Descriptors: Crime, Criminal Law, Justice, Mental Health
