A Question of Evidence: A Critique of Risk Assessment Models Used in the Justice System

By Christopher W. Baird. 2009

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Risk-Needs Assessment in Juvenile Justice (2011, background): “The existing evidence reviewed by Baird (2009), for example, which did not support the inclusion of needs factors in risk assessment, also did not consider time at risk or violent reoffending specifically.”
The Role of Offender Risk Assessment: A Policy Maker Guide (2010, methodology): “Even among academics there is strong discourse between two specific camps.1 The first camp, lead primarily by Christopher Baird, argues that the current fourth generation risk assessment is problematic and that criminogenic needs should not be included in the measurement of risk.”
How well do dynamic needs predict recidivism? Implications for risk assessment and risk reduction (2013, background): “These critiques argue that the added effort and loss of parsimony associatedwith including dynamic items that are not associated with recidivism is inefficient and may reduce the overall accuracy of the assessment (Austin, 2006; Baird, 2009; Duwe, 2013).”
A Comparison of Risk Assessment Instruments in Juvenile Justice (2013, background): “Most of Baird et al.’s (2013) report seems allocated to the argument that “shorter is better” and that the “Solano JSC is best.”
Dynamic risk and protective factors (2016, result): “We also note the general consensus is not unanimous, since key scholars in the area of risk assessment (Baird, 2009; Harris & Rice, 2015) strongly assert that protective”
Science Current Directions in Psychological Current Directions in Violence Risk Assessment on Behalf Of: Association for Psychological Science (unknown): “Baird (2009) favors separation, arguing that the addition of treatment-relevant variables to otherwise parsimonious risk equations that emphasize past (mis)behavior will dilute their predictive utility.”
Development of the California Static Risk Assessment (CSRA): Recidivism Risk Prediction in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (2013, methodology): “…instruments utilize these measures, but studies have begun to show that the predictive value of the more concise, purely static instruments is at least as high as the more complex, dynamic tools (Gottfredson and Moriarty 2006; Barnoski and Drake 2007; Pattavina and Taxman 2007; Baird 2009).”
Risk Technology in Sentencing: Testing the Promises and Perils (Commentary on Hannah-Moffat, 2011) (2013, background): “First, increasingly complex and poorly validated risk assessment tools are being sold to criminal justice agencies (see Baird, 2009; Skeem & Eno Louden, 2007).”