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Violence in the community was operationalized from various files.
The interater reliability of low, moderate, or high violence risks showed acceptable significant results as to correspondence. The final risk judgment were not only significantly predictive of community violence after release, but effect size too showed moderate to large results indicating that the study was not only significant but also weighty and therefore its results were worthy of consideration. Researchers therefore suggested that the HCR-20 violence risk assessment sample could contribute meaningfully to assessment of violence risk given that certain conditions were in place.
2. Lalumiere and Quinsey (1994) used phallometric assessments in order to assess degree to which rapists could be identified from non-sex offenders, whether rapists respond more to description of rape than to consenting sex, and what are the variables that may allow one of identify rapists.
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Effect sizes of the study averaged 0.82 (which means there was a moderate effect assize). The only variable that demonstrated a significant measure on effect (namely which showed that it was important to consider) was the stimulus set that showed that more graphic rape descriptions was the most meaningful (if not the only meaningful) way to be able to discriminate between rapists and non-sex offenders. The rest, such as rapists responding more to rape than to consenting sex cues, showed statistical significance but were minor indicators of importance of consideration when compared to the effect of stimulus sets.
References
Douglas, K., Ogloff, J., & Hart, S. (2003) Evaluation of a model of violence risk assessment, Psychiast. Serv. 54, 1372-1379
Lalumiere, M. & Quinsey, V.L. (1994) The discriminability of rapists from non- sex offenders using phallometric measures. Criminal Justice & Behavior, 21, 150-175.
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