Risk Assessment: A Practitioner's Guide to Predicting Harmful Behaviour - Paperback

by Bryony Moore (Author), B. Moore (Author)

This Handbook is aimed at any professional whose work involves predicting the behaviour of others-eg probation, social work, residential care and health and nursing staff. Contents include: basic principles . bias in decision-making . individual risk and external factors (applied risk) . definition of target behaviour, probability v. cost of recurrence, motivation to repeat behaviour, controls and disinhibitors, insights into past offending