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17 Cards in this Set
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true positive
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a correct prediction and occurs when a person who is predicted to be violent engages in violence
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true negative
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a correct prediction and occurs when a person who is predicted not to be violent does not act violently
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false positive
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an incorrect prediction and occurs when a person who is predicted to be violent but is not
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false negative
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an incorrect prediction and occurs when a person who is not predicted to be violence but acts violently
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base rate
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the percentage of people withing a given population who commit a criminal or violent act
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illusory correlation
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belief that a correlation exists between two events that in reality are either not correlated or correlated to a much lesser degree
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unstructured clinical judgement
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Decisions characterized by a substantial amount of professional discretion and lack of guidelines
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actuarial prediction
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decisions are based on risk factors that are selected and combined based on their empirical or statistical association with a specific outcome
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structured professional judgement
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decisions are guided by a predetermined list of risk factors that have been selected from the research and professional literature. judgement of risk level is based on the evaluator's professional judgemet
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risk factor
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a measurable feature of an individual that predicts the behaviour of interest (e.g., violence or psychopathology)
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static risk factor
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risk factor that does not fluctuate over time and is not changed by treatment(e.g., age at first arrest). Also known as historical risk factor
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dynamic risk factor
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risk factors that fluctuate over time and are amenable to changing
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historical risk factor
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risk factor that refers to events that have been experienced in the past. Also known as static risk factor
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dispositional risk factor
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risk factors that reflect the individual's traits, tendencies, or styles (e.g.,negative attitudes)
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clinical risk factors
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types and symptoms of mental disorders (e.g., substance abuse)
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contextual risk factors
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risk factors that refer to aspects of the current environment (e.g.,access to victims or weapons). Also referred to situational risk factors
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protective factors
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factors that reduce the likelihood of a negative outcome.Ex.prosocial involvement, strong social support
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