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Rethinking Experts’ Perceptions in Money Laundering Risk Assessment
This paper examines the factors that influence experts’ risk assessments of money laundering in the context of anti-money laundering (AML) measures....
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Violence Risk Assessment: Research and Practice
This chapter provides a historical overview of research and practice in violence risk assessment. Unstructured clinical risk judgment was largely...
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Towards an Integration of Risk Assessment, Case Formulation, and Forensic Neuroscience
Within forensic settings, case formulations (CF) are used to explain and understand offending behaviour. Craig and Rettenberger (An etiological...
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We Are Not There Yet: Contemporary Challenges for Risk Assessment and Management
Over the last decades, risk assessment has gained a firm foothold in the criminal justice system of Western countries. This increased importance of...
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Towards a More Evidence-Based Risk Assessment for People in the Criminal Justice System: the Case of OxRec in the Netherlands
Risk assessment tools are widely used throughout the criminal justice system to assist in making decisions about sentencing, supervision, and...
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False positives vs. false negatives: public opinion on the cost ratio in criminal justice risk assessment
ObjectivesWe examine public attitudes towards false positives and false negatives in criminal justice risk assessment and how people’s choices differ...
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Navigating Risk
This chapter situates the issue of distracted driving in a ‘risk’ context, arguing that this concept helps to understand both the problem and the...
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Risk Assessment—the Key to More Security? Factors, Tools, and Practices in Dealing with Extremist Individuals
In recent years, risk assessments for violent extremism have attracted great interest from both scholars and practitioners, and many assessment tools...
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Predicting Recidivism Risk Meets AI Act
Quantitative recidivism risk assessment can be used at the pretrial detention, trial, sentencing, and / or parole stage in the justice system. It has...
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Exemplification of child abduction in US news media: Testing media effects on parental perceptions and assessment of risk
The objective of this study is to advance the literature on exemplification theory and how media coverage can impact public perceptions of crime....
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Challenging the Risk Paradigm: Children First, Positive Youth Justice
This chapter explores the trajectory of ‘Child First’ justice in the Youth Justice System of England and Wales, from its genesis as the ‘Children...
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Trajectories of Change in Acute Dynamic Risk Ratings and Associated Risk for Recidivism in Paroled New Zealanders: A Joint Latent Class Modelling Approach
ObjectivesPrior studies indicate risk for recidivism declines with time spent in the community post-incarceration. The current study tested whether...
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Contribution to the harm assessment of darknet markets: topic modelling drug reviews on Dark0de Reborn
Amid the global opioid crisis, the volume of drug trade via darknet markets has risen to an all-time high. The steady increase can be explained by...
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Psychometric evaluation of an Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) measurement tool: an equitable assessment or reinforcing biases?
BackgroundUtilizing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) measurement scales to assess youths’ adversities has expanded exponentially in health and...
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An Algorithmic Assessment of Parole Decisions
ObjectivesParole is an important mechanism for alleviating the extraordinary social and financial costs of mass incarceration. Yet parole boards can...
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Assessment Tools and the Young People Project
This chapter will detail the findings of the part of the project that was led by Dr. Sophie King-Hill at The University of Birmingham, supported by...
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Unraveling the Sequences of Risk Factors Underlying the Development of Criminal Behavior
This work aims to investigate the role of sequences of risk factors from childhood to young adulthood in predicting subsequent criminal...