ABSTRACT: Testimony about the future dangerousness of a person has become a central staple of many judicial processes. In settings such as bail, sentencing, and parole decisions, in rulings about the civil confinement of the mentally ill, and in custody decisions in a context of domestic violence, the assessment of a person's propensity towards physical or sexual violence is regarded as a deciding factor. These assessments can be based on two forms of expert testimony: actuarial or clinical. The purpose of this paper is to examine the scientific and epistemological basis of both methods of prediction or risk assessment. My analysis will reveal that this kind of expert testimony is scientifically baseless. The problems I will discuss will ge...
The article studies the constitution of psychiatric expertise as an artefact that is both scientific...
Judges and juries must make momentous and intricate decisions. The temptation is overwhelming for th...
Predictions of dangerousness, violence, and recidivism continue to play an ever-growing role in the ...
ABSTRACT: Testimony about the future dangerousness of a person has become a central staple of many j...
Testimony about the future dangerousness of a person has become a central staple of many j...
Civil commitment, confinement under sexual predator laws, and many capital and noncapital sentences ...
The opinions of experts in prediction in civil commitment hearings should help the courts, but over ...
The opinions of experts in prediction in civil commitment hearings should help the courts, but over ...
The question of a criminal defendant’s risk for future offending may be of interest to courts in a v...
In the current study, we explored the effect of risk-assessment testimony, attributional complexity,...
The aim of this research was to examine the thought processes that practitioners follow when they ar...
An examination of the nature, foundation, and consequences of predictive testimony about future viol...
Recently, several authors have suggested that only by incorporating findings from actuarial risk ass...
The defendant-first approach advocated in this Article is more difficult to implement than either th...
In this work we intend to give an overview, albeit with abundant details, about the complex mechanis...
The article studies the constitution of psychiatric expertise as an artefact that is both scientific...
Judges and juries must make momentous and intricate decisions. The temptation is overwhelming for th...
Predictions of dangerousness, violence, and recidivism continue to play an ever-growing role in the ...
ABSTRACT: Testimony about the future dangerousness of a person has become a central staple of many j...
Testimony about the future dangerousness of a person has become a central staple of many j...
Civil commitment, confinement under sexual predator laws, and many capital and noncapital sentences ...
The opinions of experts in prediction in civil commitment hearings should help the courts, but over ...
The opinions of experts in prediction in civil commitment hearings should help the courts, but over ...
The question of a criminal defendant’s risk for future offending may be of interest to courts in a v...
In the current study, we explored the effect of risk-assessment testimony, attributional complexity,...
The aim of this research was to examine the thought processes that practitioners follow when they ar...
An examination of the nature, foundation, and consequences of predictive testimony about future viol...
Recently, several authors have suggested that only by incorporating findings from actuarial risk ass...
The defendant-first approach advocated in this Article is more difficult to implement than either th...
In this work we intend to give an overview, albeit with abundant details, about the complex mechanis...
The article studies the constitution of psychiatric expertise as an artefact that is both scientific...
Judges and juries must make momentous and intricate decisions. The temptation is overwhelming for th...
Predictions of dangerousness, violence, and recidivism continue to play an ever-growing role in the ...