Historical clinical and risk management -20 (HCR-20)

Full name of scale

Historical clinical and risk management -20

Languages

English and it has been translated into more than 16 languages

French version reference

Dupuis, M., Bianchi, T., Abbiati, M., Gholam-Rezaee, M. M., & Moulin, V. (2013). First results of a french validation of the HCR-20 among swiss offenders. In 16ème Journée de la recherche des départements de psychiatrie de Lausanne et Genève.

Rater

Clinician-rated

Training

No information found

Utility

It is a 20-item, structured instrument used for predicting violence risk in forensic, criminological, penitentiary, and psychiatric settings.

Versions

HCR-20 Version 3 (HCR-20V3; Douglas et al., 2013); this version offers possibilities of assessing changes during treatment

Time to complete

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Cost/license

No information found

Penney, S. R., McMaster, R., & Wilkie, T. (2014). Multirater reliability of the historical, clinical, and risk management-20. Assessment, 21(1), 15–27. Follow this link for the article.

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