The Reliability and Validity of Dangerous Behavior Predictions

Footnotes

• Webster is Research Scientist at METFORS, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Criminology at the University of Toronto. Sepejak and Menzies were previously Research Scientists at METFORS. The former is now Senior Research Officer at the Ontario Ministry of Correctional Services and the latter is Instructor in the Department of Criminology, Simon Fraser University. Slomen formerly coordinated the prediction of dangerousness project at METFORS and is now a member of the Psychology Department at Queen Street Mental Health Centre. Jensen is Deputy-Director - Clinical at METFORS and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Butler, formerly Staff Psychiatrist at METFORS is now in private practice and with the Forensic Service of the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry. This paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law in October 1992. Requests for reprints should be addressed to C.D. Webster, METFORS, 1001 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M6J 1H4.