Risk Assessment Overrides: Shuffling the Risk Deck Without Any Improvements in Prediction

In the federal supervision system, officers have discretion to depart from the risk designations provided by the Post Conviction Risk Assessment (PCRA) instrument. This component of the risk classification process is referred to as the supervision override. While the rationale for allowing overrides...

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Authors: Cohen, Thomas H. (Author) ; Lowenkamp, Christopher Tyson (Author) ; Bechtel, Kristin (Author) ; Flores, Anthony W. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: [2020]
In: Criminal justice and behavior
Year: 2020, Volume: 47, Issue: 12, Pages: 1609-1629
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Keywords:
Professional discretion
Risk assessment tools
Risk prediction
supervision overrides