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Re-visioning risk assessment for human service decision making [An article from: Children and Youth Services Review]
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Author(s)C. Schwalbe
PublisherElsevier
ISBN / ASINB000RQYCGA
ISBN-13978B000RQYCG2
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This digital document is a journal article from Children and Youth Services Review, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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This article examines the usefulness of actuarial risk assessment for high-stakes decision making in child welfare, mental health, criminal justice and juvenile justice. Review of the literature affirms the potential benefits of risk assessment instruments for decision making by human service professionals. However, research also hints at the underutilization of risk assessment in practice. Although a number of explanations may account for this, the needs of decision makers in the real world of day to day practice has received little attention in the literature. This article identifies insights from the Recognition primed decision making theory (RPD) that promise to strengthen the utility of actuarial risk assessment instruments. It argues that an actuarial risk assessment instrument, based on appropriate causal theory, would have a greater likelihood of utilization as compared to the a-theoretical instruments that predominate in current structured decision making systems.
Description:
This article examines the usefulness of actuarial risk assessment for high-stakes decision making in child welfare, mental health, criminal justice and juvenile justice. Review of the literature affirms the potential benefits of risk assessment instruments for decision making by human service professionals. However, research also hints at the underutilization of risk assessment in practice. Although a number of explanations may account for this, the needs of decision makers in the real world of day to day practice has received little attention in the literature. This article identifies insights from the Recognition primed decision making theory (RPD) that promise to strengthen the utility of actuarial risk assessment instruments. It argues that an actuarial risk assessment instrument, based on appropriate causal theory, would have a greater likelihood of utilization as compared to the a-theoretical instruments that predominate in current structured decision making systems.
