ABSTRACT
Unfortunately, no interview or psychological test can predict future violence with high accuracy. Relatively infrequent events (e.g., homicide) are more dicult to predict than more common events (e.g., domestic violence) because they have a low base rate of occurrence. Despite this caveat, evaluators are generally expected to understand established factors and situations that are likely to increase a person’s risk of future violence. is chapter summarizes important components of a structured clinical risk assessment to assist clinicians and forensic evaluators in the seemingly daunting task of evaluating future dangerousness.
