TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1990//
TI  - Risk assessment: the emperor's new clothes?
JO  - Child welfare
A1  - Wald, M. S.
A1  - Woolverton, M.
SP  - 483
EP  - 511
VL  - 69
IS  - 6
N2  - This article reviews the risk assessment procedures and instruments that are being used by child protection agencies. Although supportive of the concept of risk assessment, the authors argue that all current instruments have major methodological deficiencies that limit the utility of such instruments as a means of predicting future abusive or neglectful behavior. The authors suggest how risk assessment decisions should be made at each stage of a child protection investigation.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0009-4021
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -