风险测量得分和诊断是否预测性暴力掠夺者案件的评估员的意见? 这取决于评估者
Marcus T Boccaccini1, Daniel C Murrie2, Paige B Harris3
1Department of Psychology and Philosophy, Sam Houston State University.
Law and human behavior
|August 12, 2024
概括
法医评估人员在性暴力掠夺者 (SVP) 评估的结论中显示出显著的差异. 这些变化源于评估人员如何解释数据并分配诊断,而不仅仅是评估的个人.
科学领域:
- 法医心理学 法医心理学
- 法律心理学 法律心理学
- 临床心理学 临床心理学
背景情况:
- 在法律背景下,法医评估者的意见对于像民事承诺这样的决定至关重要.
- 现有的研究表明评估者之间存在差异,但这种差异的具体来源尚未完全理解.
- 这项研究调查了中间决策过程中的差异是否有助于在性暴力掠夺者 (SVP) 评估中的最终意见分歧.
研究的目的:
- 检查法医评估人员的中间决策 (例如,评分仪器,诊断) 的变化是否解释了他们关于SVP地位的最终意见的差异.
- 探索评估人员如何解释数据并得出结论的潜在偏见或系统差异.
主要方法:
- 分析了由10个不同的评估者进行的745次SVP评估的数据.
- 检查的变量包括关于行为异常的意见,诊断 (偏方症,反社会人格障碍),以及心理病检查清单修订 (PCL-R) 和静态-99.9的得分.
主要成果:
- 评估者差异在行为异常意见 (17%),偏爱症诊断 (7%),PCL-R得分 (16%) 中占有显著差异.
- 与简单的偏见假设相反,评估者在底层得分和诊断与最终结论相关的程度上存在差异.
- 该研究显示,不同的评价者在形成最终的SVP意见时似乎优先考虑不同的因素.
结论:
- 法医评估人员在评分工具和得出结论方面存在重大差异.
- 这项研究独特地证明了评估人员在达成法医结论时使用的模式的显著变化.
- 这些发现凸显了在法医评估过程中需要更深入的理解和潜在的标准化.
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