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- Title
USE PROBATION TO PREVENT MURDER.
- Authors
SHERMAN, LAWRENCE W.
- Abstract
This article discusses the use of forecasting techniques by probation officers to predict those clients who are most likely to kill or be killed. The probation officers can then concentrate their efforts on such clients in order to prevent homicide. This recommendation for preventing murders comes from data that shows that most U.S. murders are committed by young men on probation or parole. New statistical techniques make forecasting clients who will kill very reliable and treatments for depression and posttraumatic stress disorder have improved greatly.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MURDER prevention; POST-traumatic stress disorder; PRISON release; YOUNG men; DEPRESSED persons; PROBATION officers; CORRECTIONAL personnel
- Publication
Criminology & Public Policy, 2007, Vol 6, Issue 4, p843
- ISSN
1538-6473
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1745-9133.2007.00461.x