Abstract
Knowledge of group tendencies may not assist accurate predictions in the individual case. This has importance for forensic decision making and for the assessment tools routinely applied in forensic evaluations. In this article, we applied Monte Carlo methods to examine diagnostic agreement with different levels of inter-rater agreement given the distributional characteristics of PCL-R scores. Diagnostic agreement and score agreement were substantially less than expected. In addition, we examined the confidence intervals associated with individual predictions of violent recidivism.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 259-274 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Law and Human Behavior |
Volume | 34 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Aug 2010 |
Keywords
- forensic practice
- decision making
- forensic evaluation
- recidivism