Choose 1 risk assessment and answer the following questions:
Risk assessments:
Risk assessment for violence within populations of those with serious mental illness.
Violence risk assessment of offenders who are facing capital punishment (death penalty).
1) Name of the assessment.
2) Purpose of the assessment and a brief description. (Use your book, library materials, or the publishers website to help you)
3) Validity and Reliability stated by the author (include if they cite any issues with reliability or validity)?
4) Find an article about the assessment (not by the test authors) and what they report about the assessment (include any potential issues they found).
5) Would you use this measure? Why or why not?
Book : Conroy, M. A. & Murrie, D.C. (2007). Forensic assessment of violence risk:
A guide for risk assessment and risk management. New York, NY:
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
