Abstract

SINGH, Jay P; CONDEMARIN, Carolina  and  FOLINO, Jorge O. The use of violence risk assessment instruments in Argentina and Chile. Rev. Crim. [online]. 2013, vol.55, n.3, pp.279-290. ISSN 1794-3108.

Introduction: The last decades revealed important scientific advances in the systemization of violence risk assessment; nevertheless, the implementation in practice of these contributions have neither been fast nor uniform in Latin America. Objectives: The article is aimed at describing the instruments for violence risk assessment used in Chile and Argentina and the features of this professional practice. Material and method: A web survey was carried out among mental health-related professionals registered in the national and international lists of 17 countries between September and December 2012. The results obtained from 46 respondents from Chile and Argentina are reported in this study: 78% of the psychiatrists, 93% of the psychologists and 100% of the social workers involved have employed violence risk assessment (VRA) instruments deemed relatively useful by a wide majority, being HCR-20, PCL-R and PCL-SV the most

Keywords : Violence; instruments; surveys; forensic psychiatry; psychology.

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