Specialized Risk Assessment Instruments for Intimate Partner Violence

question 7

Multiple Choice

Specialized risk assessment instruments for intimate partner violence

• A) predict better than assessment instruments used to predict general offending
• B)predict as well as general scales but not significantly better
• C) have yet to show that they predict domestic violence
• D) predict only when used in combination with more general risk instruments
• E) predict significantly more poorly than the LSI-R

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