TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1975//
TI  - Social policy implications of the inability to predict violence
JO  - Journal of Social Issues
A1  - Monahan, John
A1  - Cummings, Lesley
SP  - 153
EP  - 164
VL  - 31
IS  - 2
N2  - Much current social policy in the areas of mental health and criminal justice is based on the supposition that psychologists and psychiatrists can accurately predict those who will be physically violent to another. A review of the empirical literature, however, reveals that violence is vastly overpredicted, regardless of who is doing the predicting or how the predictions are made. This predictive inaccuracy has several immediate social policy implications: Indeterminate prison sentencing should be abolished, civil commitment and preventive detention should be substantially curtailed, and legal safeguards should be infused into early intervention programs.<p /> <p>Language: en</p> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-4537
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4560.1975.tb00766.x
ID  - ref1
ER  -