What is actuarial risk assessment?
What will be an ideal response?
Actuarial risk assessment is a growing subspecialty in forensic mental health. When actuarial risk instruments are administered by a properly trained professional they can provide valid and reliable statistical risk ratings, which are associated with short-, medium-, and long-term risk to re-offend over the course of five-, ten-, and fifteen-year periods. The power of actuarial risk prediction rests on the huge volume of actual cases studied over the course of fifteen years that are statistically sorted by offender typology and rates of re-offending.
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