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Assessment of Risk to Reoffend: Actuarial Versus Risk Formulation

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This chapter will compare and contrast the two major approaches to assessment of risk to sexually offend in use today, the strictly actuarial and forensic case formulation.

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Laws, D.R. (2016). Assessment of Risk to Reoffend: Actuarial Versus Risk Formulation. In: Social Control of Sex Offenders. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-39126-1_7

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