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9 Crim. Just. & Behavior 3 (1982)

handle is hein.journals/crmjusbhv9 and id is 1 raw text is: DANGEROUSNESS PREDICTIONS AND THE MALIGNED FORENSIC PROFESSIONAL Suggestions for Detecting Distortion of True Basal Violence H. V. HALL First Circuit Court, Honolulu Accuracy of dangerousness predictions are typically assessed by subsequent violence related arrests and/or hospitalizations, yet evidence suggests the sole use of these measures excludes all but a small fraction of actual subject violence. As a result, forensic professionals are perceived as poor predictors of violence, perhaps wrongly. Expansion of criterion measures of violence is suggested, and methods for detecting subject distortion of past violence are proffered. Utilization of fake-good/fake-bad assessment methods for uncovering dishonest interview behavior, and concealment of past violence in particular, seems warranted. S ubsumed under rubrics such as acting out (Curnutt & Corozzo, 1960; Brown, 1965), violence (Toch, 1969; Har- togs, 1970), aggression (Bandura, 1973; Rule & Nesdale, 1976), and dangerousness (Shaw, 1978; Levinson & Ramsay, 1969; Steadman & Cozza, 1980), articulation of possible predictive factors relative to inflicted harm on others has decidedly increased in recent decades. Dangerous behavior, a legal term, is the focus of forensic prognostications and includes consummated acts of harm plus inchoate (attempted) offenses in the same crime CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND BEHAVIOR, Vol. 9 No. 1, March 1982 3-12 © 1982 American Association of Correctional Psychologists 3 from the SAGE Social Science Collections. All Rights Reserved.

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