@article{ref1,
title="Premature reliance on the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised in violence risk and threat assessment",
journal="Journal of threat assessment",
year="2001",
author="Freedman, David",
volume="1",
number="4",
pages="53-66",
abstract="Recent research has begun to carefully examine the premature reliance on the PCL-R for clinical and forensic evaluation of violence risk and threat assessment. This article reviews the lack of reliability and validity evidence to support application of PCL-R scores for assessing individual risk. Also discussed are the limitations of existing re search to support use of the PCL-R with specific populations, its inability to adequately address the context of behavior, and the largely unad-dressed problem of differential assessment. Finally, also discussed is the balance between the incremental benefit gained by using the PCL-R and the substantive harm that comes from falsely identifying people as high risk.<p />",
language="",
issn="1533-2608",
doi="10.1300/J177v01n04_04",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/J177v01n04_04"
}