Advancing cross-cultural approaches to violence risk assessment

该项目旨在评估暴力风险工具对与司法系统有联系的澳大利亚土著、文化和语言多样性个人的有用性。进行暴力风险评估是为了估计个人未来发生暴力的风险。在澳大利亚的医疗法律和惩教环境中，文书被广泛用于为量刑、治疗计划和罪犯管理战略提供信息。然而，它们对来自不同文化背景的澳大利亚人的预测有效性和实用性尚不清楚。对现有评估和新的定性数据的分析可望产生有助于改进暴力风险评估和加强预防和管理暴力的结论。

This project aims to evaluate the usefulness of violence risk instruments for Australian Indigenous and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse individuals who have contact with the justice system. Violence risk assessment is undertaken to estimate an individual’s risk for future violence. Instruments are widely used in Australian medico-legal and correctional settings to inform sentencing, treatment planning and offender management strategies. However their predictive validity and utility for Australians from diverse cultural backgrounds is unclear. An analysis of both existing assessment and new qualitative data is expected to produce findings that can contribute to improved violence risk assessment and the enhanced prevention and management of violence.