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Edens, John F.; Skeem, Jennifer L.; Douglas, Kevin S. – Assessment, 2006
This study compares two instruments frequently used to assess risk for violence, the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG) and the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV), in a large sample of civil psychiatric patients. Despite a strong bivariate relationship with community violence, the VRAG could not improve on the predictive validity…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Violence, At Risk Persons, Check Lists