Actuarial Studies

 
 
 
 
1. Recent studies have shown that actuarial studies perform

significantly better than clinical instruments in predicting violent behavior, in particular the results of the MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence (Rice, Harris and Quinsey, 2002, 589-593). In this study, civil psychiatric patients were rated while in hospital on a wide range of predictor variables, released into the community, and followed for a year. Violence included self-reported acts and those reported by official and other sources. Diagnoses of schizophrenia, or major mental disorder without substance abuse, threat-control override symptoms, delusions at the time of admission, and persecutory delusions, were all indicators of reduced violence risk on release. Hallucinations, command hallucinations, grandiose delusions, score on the Global Assessment of Functioning, total score on the Brief Psychiatric rating Scale, and diagnosis of mania and depression were all un


     
 
 
 
    

 

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