Citation

Clark DA, Fisher MJ, McDougall C. Br. J. Criminol. 1993; 33(3): 436-448.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, Publisher Oxford University Press)

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Abstract

A review of the literature relating to the assessment of risk in incarcerated offenders is given. A new methodology for the actuartal assessment of risk based on the prediction of the way in which offending behaviour traits will be manifest in the prison environment is described. A validation of this methodology is described giving a level of accuracy of 65 per cent. A measure of the accuracy, the rated percentage agreement (RPA), is described and the inter-rater reliability of the methodology is investigated. The utility of the instrument in a prison environment is outlined and implications for future refinement and validation are discussed.