Violence and Victims

Perhaps the most potent message delivered by the contributors to this special issue on the prediction of interpersonal criminal violence is that these behavioral predictions can be made within acceptable margins of accuracy, that effective and feasible...

Intense debate has focused on the use of statistical predictions of dangerousness in the criminal justice system. Two conflicting positions maintain wide support: that such predictions are never appropriate in criminal justice decision-making, and that...

The paper suggests that the conventional wisdoms that we cannot and should not predict violence are wrong. We can predict violence, and we should predict violence. It is the unfortunate case, however, that we cannot do it very well, and this is true...