HCR-20 violence risk assessment scheme overview and annotated bibliography

The risk assessment program and the Court of Penal Execution in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. [...] The term “receiver operating characteristic” took its name because it describes the detection, or prediction, “characteristics” of the test, and the “receiver” of the data can “operate” at any given point on the curve (Metz, 1978). [...] The area under the curve (AUC) of the ROC graph can be taken as an index for interpreting the overall accu- racy of the predictor. [...] These authors used a pseudo-prospective design to evalu- The discussion section details the need for risk assessment ate the utility of three decision support tools for assessing tools as well the need for tools that are more appropriate acute risk of violence: the HCR-20, the PCL-SV, and the for short-term risk assessment as opposed to long-term risk McNiel-Binder Violence Screening Checklist (VS [...] Logistic regression analyses showed that when violence was predicted based on the total scores from the PCL-SV, the HCR-20 and the VSC, that only the VSC made an in- dependent contribution to the violence prediction.