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Volume 4, Issue 1
1 February 2002
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The British Journal of Forensic Practice
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Review Article| February 01 2002

Risk assessment: still a risky business Available to Purchase

Herschel Prins
Herschel Prins
Midlands Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Loughborough
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2042-8340
Print ISSN: 1463-6646
© MCB UP Limited
2002
The British Journal of Forensic Practice (2002) 4 (1): 3–8.
https://doi.org/10.1108/14636646200200002

There are three themes in this short paper. First, a brief historical context; second, the semantics of ‘dangerousness’ and ‘risk’; third, some issues that emerge from recent inquiries into homicides committed by persons known to the psychiatric service.

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