Special Issue: Risk Assessment
Introduction: Why Assessment "Matters" in an Evidence-Based Community Corrections System
By James Byrne, Guest Editor
Assessment with a Flair: Offender Accountability in Supervision Plans
By Faye Taxman
What Community Supervision Officers Need to Know About Actuarial Risk Assessment and Clinical Judgment
By Patricia Harris
Clinical Versus Actuarial Judgments in Criminal Justice Decisions: Should One replace the Other?
By Stephen D. Gottfredson, Laura J. Moriarty
Overcoming Sisyphus: Effective Prediction of Mental Health Disorders and Recidivism Among Delinquents
By Albert Roberts, Kimberly Bender
Mental Illness in Correctional Populations: The Use of Standardized Screening Tools for Further Evaluation or Treatment
By Arthur Lurigio, James A. Swartz
Risk Assessment and Sex Offender Community Supervision: A Context-Specific Framework
By Andrew Harris
Validating the Level of Service Inventory—Revised on a Sample of Federal Probationers
By Anthony W. Flores, Christopher T. Lowenkamp, Paula Smith, Edward J. Latessa
Validation of the Risk and Resiliency Assessment Tool for Juveniles in the Los Angeles County Probation System
By Susan Turner, Terry Fain
How much risk Can We Take? The Misuse of risk Assessment in Corrections
By James Austin
Assessing the Role of Clinical and Actuarial Risk Assessment in an Evidence-Based Community Corrections System: Issues to Consider
By James Byrne, April Pattavina