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HCR-20v3

The HCR-20v3 is a structured professional judgment framework developed by Douglas, Hart, and colleagues for the assessment of risk for violence among adolescents and adults in mental health, criminal justice, and forensic settings. Published in 2013, it represents the third version of one of the most widely validated risk assessment instruments in forensic psychology, synthesizing clinical judgment with empirical evidence of violence risk factors.

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Historical Clinical Risk Management-20 version 3
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / forensic-psychology
  • Douglas, K. S., Hart, S. D., Webster, C. D., Belfrage, H., Guy, L. S., & Wilson, C. M. (2013). HCR-20v3: Assessing risk for violence. Simon Fraser University Mental Health Law Program. · URL
  • Webster, C. D., Douglas, K. S., Eaves, D., & Hart, S. D. (1997). HCR-20: Assessing risk for violence (Version 2). Simon Fraser University Mental Health Law Program. · URL
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Same method familyBHSmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyLSI-Rmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familySAPROFmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyStatic-99Rmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyVRAGmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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