Social Policy Implications of the Inability to Predict Violence.

Monahan, John; Cummings, Lesley

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Publication Date: 1975

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Social Policy Implications of the Inability to Predict Violence

Monahan, John; Cummings, Lesley

Journal of Social Issues, 31, 2, 153-164, Spr 75

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. (Author/JM)

Descriptors: Crime, Criminal Law, Justice, Mental Health, Predictive Measurement, Predictive Validity, Psychological Studies, Public Policy, Research Reviews (Publications), Violence

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