Risk Assessment
The number of HCR-20 items in the H scale, the C scale, and the R scale.
What is 10, 5, and 5.
Defining terms: Gathering behavioral information for assessment of the risk of future violence.
What is an interview?
The study of the attitudes, behaviors, and psychology of victims and how this affects the situational dynamics between them and offenders.
What is victimology?
Psychometric concept defined as the degree to which a test score or other measurement accurately predicts scores on another outcome criterion.
What is predictive validity?
Any two strategies from Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED).
(names any two; physical security, cameras, automatic notification systems [sirens, cell phone, email], visitor logs)
What are the three qualitative categories which The Cawood Assessment Grid (CAG) organizes risk threats into?
What is Low, Medium, and High risk?
Defining terms: Actions taken to influence the future behaviors of the POC (e.g., interview/arrest).
What is an intervention?
Two techniques from the Enhanced Cognitive Interview (ECI).
(names any two techniques; free report, rapport building and summary; reverse order, mental imagery/reinstatement)
Psychometric concept defined as the degree to the degree of agreement among independent observers who rate, code, or assess the same construct.
What is interrater reliability?
The category name for victims who are insecure, nonassertive, and highly introverted.
What is a submissive victim?
The three major approaches to risk assessment.
What is actuarial, structured professional judgment, and anamnestic?
Defining terms: Actions to further the assessment/management of the case (e.g., reviewing records).
What is a response?
The standard derived from the case involving Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc.
What is the Daubert standard?
The category name for victims who are socially distant, anxious, and aggressive.
What is a provocative victim?
Define what a protective factor is AND provide one example.
(defines and names any appropriate protective factor)
Out of the following measures, which is not an SPJ tool:
- VRAG
- SARA
- START
- HCR-20
What is VRAG?
The three general categories of gathering information.
What is people, records, and forensic evidence?
Aquino and Lamertz (2004) described which two types of perpetrators/instigators.
(names any three appropriate interventions; outpatient treatment, inpatient treatment, residential treatment, protective order, arrest, dismissal etc.)
Any two social factors identified in Sommer et al. (2014) study that contribute to school shootings.
(names any two; physical bullying, peer rejection, romantic rejection or conflicts with teachers)
Identify one strength and one weakness of the actuarial approach to risk assessment.
(Names any acceptable strength and weakness)
A result where it is concluded that an individual is at low risk for violence who then commits violence.
What is false negative?
The standard derived from the case involving the United States.
What is the Frye standard?
Psychometric concept defined by the extent to which a proposed test provides unique (or improved) information about a construct (i.e., physical aggression) relative to that which is offered by existing tests of the same construct.
What is incremental validity?
An approach to assessment in which the measurement of variables have been individually selected, or derived from assessment contexts that have been individually tailored, to maximize their relevance for the particular individual.
What is an idiographic assessment approach?