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	SPJ Framework: Strukturerat professionellt omdöme för riskbedömning	VRAG: Våldsriskbedömningsguide
Ämnesområde	Rättspsykologi	Rättspsykologi
Familj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ursprungsår	2003	1993
Upphovsperson	Stephen D. Hart, Peter R. Kropp, David R. Laws	Grant T. Harris, Marnie E. Rice, Vernon L. Quinsey
Typ	Clinician-Synthesized	Clinician-rated / File-based
Ursprungskälla	Hart, S. D., Kropp, P. R., & Laws, D. R. (Eds.). (2003). Sexual deviance: Theory, assessment, and treatment. Guilford Press.	Harris, G. T., Rice, M. E., & Quinsey, V. L. (1993). Violent recidivism of mentally disordered offenders: The development of a statistical prediction instrument. Neuropsychiatry Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurology, 6(4), 269–279.
Alias	SPJ, Structured Professional Judgment, SPJ Framework	VRAG, Harris-Rice-Quinsey VRAG
Närliggande	4	4
Sammanfattning	The Structured Professional Judgment (SPJ) framework represents a contemporary approach to forensic risk assessment that synthesizes clinical judgment with empirical evidence of risk factors. Rather than producing a numerical score, SPJ guides clinicians through systematic evaluation of case-specific evidence to arrive at a structured, transparent categorical risk judgment. SPJ has become the preferred methodology in many forensic settings globally and underlies instruments such as the HCR-20v3 (violence risk) and sexual offender assessment protocols.	The Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG) is an actuarial instrument developed by Harris, Rice, and Quinsey (1993) to estimate the probability of violent recidivism among adult male offenders released from forensic psychiatric hospitals. It represents one of the earliest empirically validated violence prediction tools and remains widely used in correctional, forensic psychiatric, and civil commitment settings. The VRAG combines static historical variables with dynamic factors to generate a probability-based risk assessment.