Citation

Monahan J, Steadman HJ, Appelbaum PS, Grisso T, Mulvey EP, Roth LH, Robbins PC, Banks S, Silver E. Behav. Sci. Law 2006; 24(6): 721-730.

Affiliation

School of Law, University of Virginia, 580 Massie Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903-1789, USA. jmonahan@virginia.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/bsl.725

PMID

17171769

Abstract

The Classification of Violence Risk (COVR) is an interactive software program designed to estimate the risk that a person hospitalized for mental disorder will be violent to others. The software leads the evaluator through a chart review and a brief interview with the patient. At the end of this interview, the software generates a report that contains a statistically valid estimate of the patient's violence risk-ranging from a 1% to a 76% likelihood of violence-including the confidence interval for that estimate, and a list of the risk factors that the program took into account to produce the estimate. In this article, the development of the COVR software is described and several issues that arise in its administration are discussed.

Language: en